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Rights Activist Intercepted by Chinese Police at Shanghai Airport and Lost Contact With Outside World
Renowned Chinese rights activist Guo Feixiong was en route to Shanghai Pudong Airport on Jan. 28 when he was intercepted by Chinese police and prevented from travelling to the United States to care for his wife, who is about to undergo chemotherapy. Guo immediately announced that he would go on an indefinite hunger strike in a show of protest. However, after Guo was taken away by the authorities, he lost contact with the outside world.
Known as the “civil rights hero,” Guo Feixiong, whose real name is Yang Maodong, is also a lawyer and independent writer in China. Despite being jailed for his activism, Guo is committed to pursuing constitutional democracy.
HONG KONG (SCMO): Veteran activist Guo Feixiong has been barred from leaving China to reunite with his wife who is ill with cancer in the United States.
The 54-year-old former human rights lawyer was prevented from leaving the country from Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Thursday evening. In a text message he shared with the
South China Morning Post, he said customs officials told him he could not leave and accused him of “endangering national security”.
“I was stopped at customs and not allowed to leave,” Guo’s message said.
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Activists with the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China and China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group chant slogans demanding the release of retained Chinese human rights activists and lawyers in Hong Kong, China, 09 October 2015. EPA-EFE FILE/JEROME FAVRE
Legislator and activist Albert Ho (2ndL), Chairman of the China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group (CHRLCG), and legislator and activist Emily Lau (2ndR), vice-chairperson of the Concern Group, with other members take part in a protest demanding China s government the release of Nobel Peace Prize 2010 Laureate Liu Xiaobo in Hong Kong, China, 11 October 2010. EPA/YM YIK/EPA