The dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, faced with the communist authorities for a long time, said Wednesday AFP have regained his passport, after being deprived of it for four years.
The famous dissident iconoclastic published on social media a picture of him with the precious document, which said. “Today, I got my passport”
The artist confirmed to AFP by SMS that was in effect in your document, showing a” smiley “which showed his joy after being unable to travel outside of China since 2011. Ai Weiwei launched a campaign for 600 days retrieve his passport, photographing bouquets that changes daily in the basket of a bicycle parked in front of his shop.
An initiative that was widely reported on the Internet, with the hashtag # flowersforfreedom. Painter, sculptor and artist, Ai Weiwei was accused of tax fraud and detained since early April to late June 2011, triggering a wave of outrage across the world.
Since then, the government deprived him of his passport. Extremely tense relations between Weiwei and the Chinese authorities in recent months seem to have calmed down yet. In June, the official Chinese newspaper Global Times suggested in an editorial that it was time to “turn the page” in the confrontation with the dissident.
Also at that time, in an unusual gesture even today, the authorities allowed the artist to open his first solo show in space 798, a suburb of Beijing dedicated to contemporary art.
AFP
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