Chinese artist Ai Weiwei Missing, Ai Weiwei, a Chinese artist, still could not be reached until Monday 4 April 2011. This happened after police prevented an aggressive critic of the ruling Communist Party was now about to board the plane.
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei Missing, This latest detention adds a long list of dissidents following a series of arrests by the government in order to kill any cues that would oppose the government's power. Especially, once the transition of power took place late in 2012.
As an artist who had an exhibition at the Tate Modern in London and regularly spoke to Western media, Ai is the best figure in the international world of a government critic who was arrested two months ago. Monday Ai can not be contacted, or about 24 hours after police boarded a plane headed prevent Hong Kong.
"We have no information whatsoever. We do not know what the reason," said an assistant in his studio in Beijing Ai, who is reluctant to mention his name. He said he was one of eight employees Ai-owned studio that brought the police for questioning yesterday afternoon, along with his wife Ai and his driver who later also detained.
Everybody has been removed, except for Ai, while the studio already be operating again. "Ai Weiwei is not with us. We do not know where he is. We expect him to be released as soon as possible," he told Reuters by telephone.
Ai routine dealing with the authorities for a few years ago. The studio assistant said he did not know whether this time more serious affairs.
Ai is one of China's most famous contemporary artist. Career related to the protest for artistic freedom in 1979, provocative work in 1990 and the design of the Bird `s Nest Stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Comments, activities and works of art to the public is to include a number of speeches hardest and openly in China today, where the government controls the Internet, while traditional media restrict civil society.
Ai has never been officially detained, though many may be illegal. Last year, he was prevented from leaving China ahead of the Nobel Peace Prize for leading human rights activist of China, Liu Xiaobo.
He also put under house arrest last year. This after differences with the government over the demolition of his studio in Shanghai.
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei Missing, This latest detention adds a long list of dissidents following a series of arrests by the government in order to kill any cues that would oppose the government's power. Especially, once the transition of power took place late in 2012.
As an artist who had an exhibition at the Tate Modern in London and regularly spoke to Western media, Ai is the best figure in the international world of a government critic who was arrested two months ago. Monday Ai can not be contacted, or about 24 hours after police boarded a plane headed prevent Hong Kong.
"We have no information whatsoever. We do not know what the reason," said an assistant in his studio in Beijing Ai, who is reluctant to mention his name. He said he was one of eight employees Ai-owned studio that brought the police for questioning yesterday afternoon, along with his wife Ai and his driver who later also detained.
Everybody has been removed, except for Ai, while the studio already be operating again. "Ai Weiwei is not with us. We do not know where he is. We expect him to be released as soon as possible," he told Reuters by telephone.
Ai routine dealing with the authorities for a few years ago. The studio assistant said he did not know whether this time more serious affairs.
Ai is one of China's most famous contemporary artist. Career related to the protest for artistic freedom in 1979, provocative work in 1990 and the design of the Bird `s Nest Stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Comments, activities and works of art to the public is to include a number of speeches hardest and openly in China today, where the government controls the Internet, while traditional media restrict civil society.
Ai has never been officially detained, though many may be illegal. Last year, he was prevented from leaving China ahead of the Nobel Peace Prize for leading human rights activist of China, Liu Xiaobo.
He also put under house arrest last year. This after differences with the government over the demolition of his studio in Shanghai.
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