BEIJING -- Prominent Chinese human rights activist Tang Jitian was not allowed to leave China on Wednesday to see his ailing daughter in Japan.
Tang's 25-year-old eldest daughter is unconscious and in critical condition because of tuberculosis.
According to Tang, his daughter was studying at a Japanese language school in Tokyo, but her health deteriorated at the end of April. She was hospitalized and is on a ventilator.
"I want to attend to my daughter," the 52-year-old Tang told The Yomiuri Shimbun.
At the airport in Fuzhou in southeastern China's Fujian Province, a public security official told Tang that he would not be allowed to leave China, citing the provision in the immigration control law that prohibits anyone from leaving the country if there is a "possibility of harming national security and interests."
As a human rights lawyer, Tang defended persons associated with Falun Gong, a qigong group outlawed in China, and has been detained several times by the authorities.
In 2010, his law license was revoked and he was not allowed to leave mainland China, even to go to Hong Kong.
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