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A few days before his arrest at the Beijing airport, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (艾 未 未) criticized the Chinese authorities made arrests of human rights in China. In recent years, in prison, put more people "just because they have something written in Twitter, or in one of the blogs on the Internet », Hay said in an interview Süddeutschen Zeitung, published on Tuesday, April 5.
Police burst into the flat and fabricated evidence to the court. «They are innocent people being sentenced to 10 years in prison», - says Hay. Five days later, after he gave this interview, he was arrested at the airport in Beijing, when he was about to fly to Hong Kong. Since that time it is not known. Against the actions of Chinese officials protested the U.S. policy known and Germany.

In October it planned to hold the first exhibition of his works in Taiwan. The Chinese government believes that Taiwan is part of China, so it would be his first exhibition in China, said in an interview with Ai SZ. "Until now I was forbidden to exhibit in China. For the official China, I do not exist - explains Eye - if you ask my name in the Internet search engine, an error message. But on Twitter, which is reachable within China using techniques that I have 70 thousand followers. There, I comment on what is happening in the country, people to see that the fire was not completely extinguished. At least there is a spark. If she goes out, it will be very sad. "

About the recent opening of the German exhibition "The Art of Enlightenment" Hay said that she could not find a response in China. The country is experiencing "the era of darkness." The economy, living conditions are improving, while freedom of speech, freedom of artistic expression in China is in complete shambles.
"It's very interesting that the exhibition of the works of the Enlightenment is just now, - said the Ai on. - The situation in China is absolute crazy. If you give the name of this era, I would say that we live in an era of madness. "