Feng Zhenghu

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Feng Zhenghu on January 22, 2010 on a bench in the immigration area at Tokyo Airport
Feng Zhenghu in Japan, an appeal on his t-shirt to allow him to re-enter China

Feng Zhenghu ( Chinese  馮正虎 , Pinyin Féng Zhènghǔ ; * July 1, 1954 , Feng is the family name) is a Chinese economist and human rights activist from Shanghai .

background

Feng gained international fame when Chinese authorities refused to allow him to re-enter China after a stay in Japan and he had to fly back to Japan. From November 4, 2009, he refused to leave the immigration area of Tokyo Narita Airport in protest . The international attention of the case ultimately led to his being allowed to enter China again in February 2010.

His fate has been compared to the role played by Tom Hanks in the movie Terminal .

Life

Feng has been in Wenzhou in the province of Zhejiang born. He lives in Shanghai. His sister lives in Japan with her Japanese husband. He is married and his son is studying in Japan.

His career as an economist and academic began in the 1980s. He founded an economic institute (in the English translation Institute of China Business Development or China Institute for Enterprise Development ), which he also chaired in 1989, when it published an open letter in which the military suppression of the Tian'anmen democracy movement was criticized, whereby he came into conflict with the regime. He then studied in Japan and finally returned to Shanghai, where he published information on Japanese investments in China. The authorities considered this publication illegal and sentenced him to three years in prison in 2000 or 2001. The information on the time of his three-year imprisonment varies depending on the source from 2000 to 2003 or from 2001 to 2004.

After his release, he wrote several plays about abuse of office by local authorities and evictions. He also campaigned for the rights of Shanghai citizens who were evicted from their homes in the area designated for Expo 2010 .

In the spring of 2009 he visited his sister in Japan. When he wanted to return to China in June, the authorities at Shanghai Pudong Airport denied him re-entry several times, so that he had to fly back to Japan several times. Finally, in protest, he decided not to leave the immigration area of Tokyo Narita Airport on November 4, 2009 , which caused international media to take notice of him. A support network was organized via Internet services such as Twitter and Flickr , which also attracted international attention. He was able to enter again on February 12, 2010. He was then under guarded house arrest in his apartment in Shanghai.

Political opinions

Feng's political beliefs are made clear in the following quote:

“I don't talk about Communism, I don't talk about ideas such as democracy. A country just has to respect its own laws, and if it can do that, it will have integrated into the world ”.
In German: “I'm not talking about communism, I'm not talking about ideas like democracy. A country just has to respect its own laws, and if it can do that, it will be integrated into the world. "

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Chinese human rights activist stuck at Tokyo airport . In: The Guardian , November 13, 2009. 
  2. ↑ Feng Zhenghu: Changing China from Terminal 1 . In: CBS News , Nov. 30, 2009. 
  3. ^ Chinese activist in limbo at Tokyo airport . In: CNN , December 4, 2009. 
  4. ↑ a b c d Chinese airport dweller tries to sue , Telegraph.co.uk , March 1, 2010
  5. ^ A b Pavilions and labor camps . ( Memento from November 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 24, 2010.
  6. ↑ Entry allowed . In: Telepolis , February 12, 2010. 
personal data
SURNAME Feng, Zhenghu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Féng, Zhènghǔ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese economist and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1954