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#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei

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#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei

5/ 10· 22013125 min

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.

Director
James MacDonald

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#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei runs 125 minutes (2h 5m).
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#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei stars Christopher Goh, Junix Inocian, Andrew Koji, Orion Lee, David Lee-Jones.

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