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29 Jan 2021
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
Being denied care for wife, Chinese activist starts hunger strike 2 minutes read
Beijing, Jan 29 (efe-epa).- A Chinese activist started a hunger strike Friday to protest the country’s authorities for barring him from travel to the United States, where his wife is receiving chemotherapy.
The China Human Rights Lawyers Support Group (CHRLCG) told EFE that security agents prevented Yang Maodong, or Guo Feixiong, from boarding a Thursday flight to the United States from Shanghai Pudong International Airport, accusing him of “putting national security at risk.”
The source said it had not had contact with Yang since Thursday night.
The activist, self-taught in legal matters, had arrived in Shanghai hours earlier on a flight from the city of Guangzhou, where he resides.