UN Expert Demands Release of Human Rights Defender Guo Feixiong in China
UN Expert Demands Release of Human Rights Defender Guo Feixiong in China
Guo Feixiong is the pen name of Chinese human rights defender and writer Yang Maodong.
Chinese authorities can no longer ignore calls for the release of human rights defender Guo Feixiong, whose health has been seriously deteriorating in prison, a UN expert said today (October 18).
“Mr. Guo Feixiong is unjustly imprisoned, and he is in a critical state of health,” said Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. “UN human rights experts have sent 10 urgent letters to authorities about his situation since 2006. He must be released immediately on humanitarian grounds,” she said.