HONG KONG (SCMO): Veteran activist Guo Feixiong has been barred from leaving China to reunite with his wife who is ill with cancer in the United States.
The 54-year-old former human rights lawyer was prevented from leaving the country from Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Thursday evening. In a text message he shared with the South China Morning Post, he said customs officials told him he could not leave and accused him of “endangering national security”.
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