Chinese rights activist Guo Feixiong issued a statement saying he had purchased a flight from Guangzhou to Washington, D.C., at 4:50 p.m. Thursday (28th) in hopes of caring for his seriously ill wife. He said he would go on an indefinite hunger strike on the evening of the 28th if he was intercepted at the airport by the Ministry of Public Security.
He said that at noon Tuesday (26), two Guangzhou state security guards informed him in person that the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Bureau and the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau had agreed to his departure because they “didn’t want to do anything against humanity,” but the Ministry of Public Security replied that they would not approve, and that if Guo Feixiong bought his own ticket to the airport to leave the country, the Ministry of Public Security would give them an order to Guo Feixiong was intercepted from the airport.
Guo Feixiong said that two Guangzhou state guards had offered to send him “to a special place in Hubei to communicate with a Ministry of Public Security official who did not know his identity and to reach some agreement. But Guo refused, saying his wife had just had surgery to remove a tumor and that he was determined to go out on a limb, and was prepared for all the variables he would encounter at the airport.
In his statement, Guo said, “If I am stopped illegally and inhumanely, it will be the beginning of an indefinite hunger strike – to see my dear wife as soon as possible, who urgently needs my care, and to protest the bottomless and unconscionable actions of some of the perpetrators and some of their accomplices, and to protest the inhumane and illegal restrictions on citizens’ right to travel abroad. The secret management system that illegally restricts the right of citizens to travel abroad.”
Guo Feixiong said he was prepared that “they might do all kinds of ‘over the limit’ tactics,” including plotting to enter his residence and place drugs, insects, military industrial secrets, or various contraband in his carry-on luggage. “They may stuff materials or flash drives with information about various churches, people of faith, political leaders, etc.; they may also find various excuses or flaws to withhold or steal my passport to leave the country, or they may even restrict my departure in the name of an Epidemic.”
Guo Feixiong, who was sentenced to six years in prison for his solidarity with the Southern Weekend newspaper and his demand that officials disclose their assets, fought to leave the country after his release from prison in 2019, but his passport has been held up by the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau. Guo Feixiong’s wife, Zhang Qing, who is based in Maryland, recently developed colon cancer and it has spread. He sent a letter to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang earlier this month, asking that authorities be ordered to return his passport so that he could reunite with his Family in the United States.
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