LONDON — Dissident artist Ai Weiwei warned the Chinese government that its attempts to censor the internet would inevitably fail, in an article published in Monday's Guardian newspaper.
BEIJING — Chinese lawmakers are due to vote Wednesday on changes to the criminal law that would give police powers to detain some suspects for up to six months in unofficial locations known as "black jails".
Ai Weiwei has raised enough money to launch an appeal against his 15 million yuan ($2.36 million) tax bill, but authorities are refusing to accept the cash, the artist and dissident's lawyer said Monday.
Thousands of people have donated 5.29 million yuan ($830,000) to help Ai Weiwei pay a huge tax fine, with some throwing money wrapped in paper planes into his garden, the Chinese artist said Monday.
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has called Beijing a "nightmare" and said China's justice system cannot be trusted, in his first article for a foreign magazine since his release from detention in June.
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has returned to Twitter following a long silence after his release from detention in June when he was barred from giving media interviews as part of his bail conditions.
