China Activist in for Long Haul at Tokyo Airport
The BBC’s Tokyo correspondent went to visit Feng Zhenghu, who has spent over a month at Narita airport after the Chinese government banned him from entering his country:
For more than a month Feng Zhenghu has been living in a no man’s land, stuck between the arrivals gates and passport control in Terminal 1.
It’s very difficult because people stare at me as though I’m a beggar… I feel ashamed
Feng ZhenghuTens of thousands of people who pass through the airport every day see him.
He wears a t-shirt with details of his plight written on it in English.
Another, in Mandarin, is stretched over his suitcase as a kind of portable protest banner.
He has turned into something of an unlikely celebrity, so some stop to pose for pictures.
Read more about Feng Zhenghu’s case from CDT. Follow him on Twitter.
