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US, EU Urge China to Release Missing Rights Activist ‘Disappeared’ While Boarding Flight to Visit Sick Wife Renowned Chinese rights activist Yang Maodong, also known by his pen name Guo Feixiong, has raised attention at home and abroad after Chinese authorities “disappeared” him as he was boarding a flight to visit his wife, who has been receiving cancer treatment in the United States. Yang remains missing after he was stopped from boarding for a scheduled flight by border inspection officers at the Shanghai Pudong international airport on Jan. 28. His flight was bound for San Franci...

China rights activist Guo Feixiong missing after being stopped at airport Guo's family have received no information from police since he was detained at Shanghai's Pudong airport while attempting to board a flight to the US. Author: Associated Press Updated: 11:16 AM CST February 7, 2021 Authorities have given no word on the status of Chinese legal rights activist Guo Feixiong after he was blocked from leaving the country last week to join his family in the United States, his sister said Tuesday.  Yang Maoping said they had no word from Guo or information from...

China Rights Activist Missing after Being Stopped at Airport

Chinese dissident vanishes as he tries to fly to his sick wife in US By Chris Buckley New York Times,Updated February 2, 2021, 6:43 p.m. Email to a Friend An undated handout photo showed Yang Maodong, a prominent democracy activist in China, in 2019 soon after his release from prison.VIA THE NEW YORK TIIMES/NYT After learning that his wife had cancer, Yang Maodong, a prominent democracy activist in China, rushed to get a visa and air ticket to join her in the United States. But Yang never landed there. Border inspection officers at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai stopped him from joi...

Share on Twitter After learning that his wife had cancer, Yang Maodong, a prominent democracy activist in China, rushed to get a visa and air ticket to join her in the United States. But Mr Yang never landed there. Border inspection officers at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai stopped him from joining a flight to San Francisco last week, his elder sister and friends said. “I must immediately get to the United States and pour all my energies into caring for her,” Mr Yang had written in an open letter to Chinese leaders a day before his planned flight. He wrote that his ...