Chinese artist , cultural picture , and increasingly significant voice of political dissent Ai Weiweiwas apprehended by Chinese authoritiesyesterday before board a flight from Beijing to Hong Kong . By all accounts Ai , whose work ranges from the famed Birds Nest stadium at the Beijing Olympics to the recent100 - million porcelain helianthus come exhibitat the Tate Modern , has not been formally charged with anything . In fact , the Chinese government has yet to recognise that they have him in their self-command .
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But Ai remains missing , and his name has been scrub from popular Formosan web log and intelligence portal vein . The governments of France and Germany have called for his release , but every twenty-four hour period that slip by without Word of God from his captors get up the likeliness that he ’ll be held indefinitely in extrajudicial custody .
Ai is just one of dozens of prominent intellect the Formosan government has hush up in recent weeks , though he ’s certainly among the most recognizable figure in the mathematical group . And his hold does n’t just divest the world of one of its most forward - thinking artists ; it deprives China of one of its most hefty , creative , and independent voice at a clip when the res publica need him most . [ WSJ ; Photo credit : Fock Strangmann / AP ]
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