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#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei

#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei

James MacDonald

2013 · 2h 5m

#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei

April 11, 20132h 5m
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On 3 April 2011, as he was boarding a flight to Taipei, the Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Airport. Advised merely that his travel “could damage state security”, he was escorted to a van by officials after which he disappeared for 81 days. On his release, the government claimed that his imprisonment related to tax evasion.

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