Chinese rights activist Guo Feixiong went on a hunger strike at Shanghai Pudong Airport on the evening of January 28 to protest the authorities’ ban on his departure to the United States to visit his wife, who is seriously ill.
Guo Feixiong revealed his hunger strike plan in an exclusive interview with RTHK. He said he had already purchased a ticket to Washington, D.C., for 4:50 p.m. Thursday, but that he would begin an indefinite hunger strike if he failed to board his flight on Thursday, given the danger of public security guards under his Home, obstruction of ticket changes, and the possibility of being illegally kidnapped at any Time.
According to a Twitter message retweeted by overseas pro-democracy activist Zhou Fenglock on the same day, Guo Feixiong said, “Chinese customs has officially announced that I am not allowed to leave the country in the name of allegedly endangering national security, etc. I am on an indefinite hunger strike at Pudong Airport from now on, and I ask the Chinese people and the governments and people of the world to help me urgently.”
It is reported that Guo Feixiong previously wrote publicly to Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang, and NPC Chairman Li Zhanshu, calling for urgent intervention against the Ministry of Public Security for preventing him from traveling to the United States to visit his sick wife; and hoping that the U.S. State Department would lend a helping hand and offer solidarity through legitimate diplomatic channels.
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