Chinese Dissident Blocked From Leaving Country to Be With Seriously Ill Wife

At approximately 9 p.m. local time on Jan. 28, prominent Chinese dissident and human rights activist Guo Feixiong was preparing to board a United Airlines Flight from the Shanghai Pudong Airport to the United States to be with his wife, who had just completed the first part of cancer surgery.

That’s when airport customs officials informed him that he was barred from leaving the country on national security grounds.

Guo remains at the airport on a hunger strike, demanding permission to travel to be with his wife during her time of need.

Guo had earlier written letters to the Chinese premier and minister of public security, appealing for travel on humanitarian grounds. He received a passport, but two days before exiting the country, he was asked to sign an “agreement” he believes to be illegal.

Fellow activist Jianli Yang, who himself was a student and imprisoned after the Tiananmen Massacre of 1989, including a time in solitary confinement, is now a renowned leader and architect of democracy in China. Working from the United States, Jianli leads Citizen Power Initiatives for China, an organization that strives to help the many Chinese abused under the godless communist system. He says, “We are calling on the international community and believers worldwide to support Mr. Guo on humanitarian grounds and call on the Chinese government to immediately allow him to leave to be with his seriously ill wife, Zhang Qing.”

It is a little-known fact that many of the young students who stood up for freedom at the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre have since found Christ, as exemplified by Yang, who now asks for prayer and support from believers worldwide. “I am calling on believers worldwide to pray for the release of Mr. Guo and to help us in their own countries to stand up to the communists to let him go.” {eoa}

Amir George directs the World Helpline at theworldhelpline.org. He urges anyone who wants to be a part of daily prayer on Capitol Hill at 7:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. to contact [email protected].