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China censors Ai Weiwei

Chinese authorities act against the artist

 

By Chris Gill | From issue 204, July/August 2009

Published online 8.7.09 (News)

 

Beijing. Leading Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s activism has finally provoked the Chinese authorities to act against him. His studio is being staked out by plainclothes police, and last month the artist’s popular blog on Sina.com was deleted, as well as his commentaries on China’s version of Twitter.

 

Ai Weiwei has been running a campaign documenting the death of schoolchildren in the Sichuan earthquake of May 2008, alleging that the number of fatalities was due to local officials siphoning money from school building costs.

 

Ai Weiwei told The Art Newspaper that he was recently involved in two other worrying incidents: in the first, unknown persons visited his mother’s house; when Ai Weiwei asked them for identification they refused to provide any, nor would they leave, leading him to call the local police.

 

Ai Weiwei said: “Two days later an undercover guy was following me, I asked him, ‘Why are you following me?’ Another came, and I kicked his car door to get him to report it, but he wouldn’t. So I went to the police station to make a complaint.” There are people posted outside his studio every day, the artist claimed.

 

The artist has launched another blog (blog.aiweiwei.com), and will republish his investigations into the Sichuan disaster on this. “I don’t know how long it will last before it is blocked,” he said, “but the server is in the US, so the content will remain.” No-one from Sina.com would comment on the issue of the deletion of Ai Weiwei’s blog.

 

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中国检查员艾委微

中共当局行为艺术家

 

由Chris吉尔|发行204 ， 7月/ 2009年8月

网上公布8.7.09 （新闻）

 

北京。领先的中国艺术家艾委韦的积极性，终于激怒了中共当局对他采取行动。他的工作室正在赌注由便衣警察，而上个月 艺术家的热门博客上Sina.com已删除，以及他对中国的评论版的Twitter的。

 

艾委位已经运行的运动记录的死亡学童在四川大地震2008年5月，声称的死亡人数是由于地方官员侵吞资金从学校建设的费 用。

 

艾委伪艺术报纸说，他最近参与其他两个令人担忧的事件：第一，身份不明的人访问了他母亲的房子;当艾委伟问他们的身份 ，他们拒绝提供任何，他们也不会离开，导致他呼吁当地警察。

 

艾委位说： “两天后，一名便衣家伙跟着我，我问他， '你为什么跟着我？ '另一个来了，和我踢他的车门让他报告，但他不会。所以我去了警察局提出申诉。 “有些人以外的工作室后，每天艺术家声称。

 

艺术家推出另一博客（ blog.aiweiwei.com ） ，并将其重新调查四川灾害对本。 “我不知道会持续多久，这是前受阻， ”他说， “但该服务器是在美国，这样的内容将继续。 ”没有人会从Sina.com评论的问题删除艾委维的博客。