Feng Zhenghu still living in Narita Airport
It has now been about 80 days since a Chinese human rights activist has started living inside Narita Airport- stuck because his country doesn’t want him back:
Feng has one simple wish: to go home. Yet Chinese officials will not let this Chinese citizen return to his country.
“That’s the most basic right a human has—to return home. That’s not just a Chinese issue. It’s the same worldwide. That’s my wish. I want to return to my home and my country,” said Feng.
Feng’s plight has become an emblem for attempting to hold Chinese officials accountable to their own laws.
In China, Feng published a magazine called Corruption Watch to monitor corruption among officials and the courts, particularly in his home of Shanghai. He taught himself law and helped Chinese petitioners fighting for their rights after being forcibly evicted and their homes demolished. Before that, he was a student activist in the 1989 democracy movement that was squelched when the tanks rolled over Tiananmen Square.
Feng said the regime is keeping him out of China to silence him. “They didn’t have a legitimate reason or excuse to arrest me … So they used a different method and forced me out of China. After they force you out, you have no choice but to leave. It has happened to many people over the years they use the same method. All you can do is protest a little. So the method they use, to them, is a very successful method.”
Anybody recently pass through Narita and catch a glimpse of this guy?
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So the Chinese government smuggled him into Japan and just left him there for dead, wow that is awesome, it is like i was sleeping in my apartment in China, the next thing i knew i woke up in Japan!!! My point is can you elaborate how he come to Japan in the first place? Thanks.
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There’s a link in this post. It goes to an article with more information.
Reminds me of the Tom Hanks movie “the terminal”. Time for him to find a job at the airport. Better than going home and getting tortured in prison.
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“Before that, he was a student activist in the 1989 democracy movement that was squelched when the tanks rolled over Tiananmen Square.” Wow … quality journalism right there
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Well they were really big tanks you know…
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if this man does not with to be admitted into Japan,
either voluntarily or by force, the first thing he
should do is rip out the Japanese work visa inside
his Chinese passport. Just flush it or burng it or
swallow it or whatever….
As long as the visa goes missing, Japanese immigration
will probably have a hard time “forcing” him into the
country.
Getting back into communist China, however, is an
entirely different matter.
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dood probably works for google.
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I’m going in 2 weeks. I’ll look for him while I’m at Narita. If I see him, I’ll buy him a meal.
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I was at Narita Airport on the 21st Dec and 6th Jan. Couldn’t really spot anybody that looked like him. Then again the airport too damn big, so I probably wasn’t even near him from where I was.
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anybody know exactly where this dude’s bench is?
I will be flying into Narita next, next week…. (flying
in on ANA, so I don’t know if it will be the same terminal)
Just want to take a couple of pics of the guy…. hopefully
he speaks English, since I don’t speak Japanese or Chinese.
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his bench is right beside the immigration booths where you get a stamp to enter the country.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=178107590813&ref=ts
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it’s not like this guy was refused entry into Japan in the
first place. why did he leave China in the first place?
I don’t buy the medical treatment excuse. He was living
in a major city(Shanghai). There were no doubt qualified
doctors to treat whatever he had. No reason to come to
Japan.(unless he had some super-rare disease that only
Japanese doctors could cure… but I doubt it)
what are the chances that he is suffereing from some sort
of mental illness? (like the guy who spend years at Paris
CDG airport)
Has anyone independently verified his story that he was
actually deported by the Chinese immigration authority?
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