Barred Chinese Activist Camps Out In Tokyo Airport

From AP:

Feng Zhenghu has been camping out at Tokyo’s international airport for 50 days, sleeping on a blue plastic bench and surviving on handouts of crackers and noodles from passers-by.

The Chinese rights activist whiles away the hours reading and watching wistfully as other travelers come and go — a situation reminiscent of “The Terminal,” the movie about a stateless man stuck at New York’s Kennedy Airport.

But unlike the film character played by Tom Hanks, Feng is free to leave — he has a valid Chinese passport and a visa to enter Japan. He’s staying to protest China’s refusal to let him return to his homeland, where he’s been denied entry eight times since June.

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