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Dissident Chinese Artist Is Released
BEIJING — Chinese legal authorities have released the dissident artist Ai
Weiwei after detaining him for nearly three months on suspicion of tax
evasion, likely ending a prosecution that had become a focal point of
criticism of China’s human rights record, according to a report on
Wednesday night by Xinhua, the state news agency.
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The dissident artist Ai Weiwei, right, in Beijing on Wednesday after being
released after nearly three months of detention on suspicion of tax evasion.
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Ai Weiwei after being released from detention on Wednesday.
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Mr. Ai was reached on his cell phone shortly before 12:30 a.m. Thursday. "I
’m released, I’m home, I’m fine," he said in English. "In legal terms, I
’m — how do you say — on bail. So I cannot give any interviews. But I’m
fine."
The Xinhua report said in English that the Beijing police department had
released Mr. Ai “on bail because of his good attitude in confessing his
crimes as well as a chronic disease he suffers from.” The police were also
cited as saying that Mr. Ai had repeatedly said he was willing to pay the
taxes he had evaded. The authorities say Beijing Fake Cultural Development
Ltd., a company controlled by Mr. Ai, evaded “a huge amount of taxes and
intentionally destroyed accounting documents,” Xinhua reported.
“Bail” is the shorthand commonly used as an English translation of the
Chinese term “qubao houshen,” which means obtaining a guarantee pending
trial. It generally means that prosecutors have decided to drop charges
against a suspect on certain conditions, including good behavior, and
subject to monitoring during over a period of time during which charges
could be reintroduced.
“This is a technique that the public security authorities sometimes use as
a face-saving device to end controversial cases that are unwise or
unnecessary for them to prosecute,” Jerome A. Cohen, a scholar of the
Chinese legal system, said in an e-mail. “Often in such cases a compromise
has been reached in negotiation with the suspect, as apparently it has been
here.”
Mr. Cohen said Mr. Ai’s release “is very good news and perhaps the very
best outcome that could have been expected in the circumstances of this
difficult case.”
Mr. Ai’s cellphone was turned off late Wednesday night, and a message
making the rounds on Twitter said Mr. Ai’s mother, Gao Ying, had yet to
hear from him. Mr. Ai’s family members have said that he is innocent of the
accusations against him. During his detention, they also said he suffered
from serious health problems that required medication and should be released
immediately.
Mr. Ai, a leading critic of China’s Communist Party leadership, was
detained on April 3 at the main Beijing airport as he was about to board a
flight for Hong Kong. The authorities did not immediately detail any charges
against him, and his incarceration was widely viewed as an attempt to
silence a prominent critic while authorities had time to decide on legal
grounds for prosecuting him.
He was held in an undisclosed location during his detention. Mr. Ai is China
’s most prominent artist internationally, and his detention prompted
condemnation of the Chinese government from all corners of the globe.
Earlier this month, Anish Kapoor, a well-known sculptor based in Britain,
canceled a show planned for the National Museum of China in Beijing to
protest Mr. Ai’s treatment.
On May 15, police officers took Mr. Ai’s wife, Lu Qing, to see him. His
sister, Gao Ge, said afterward that Ms. Lu had reported that Mr. Ai seemed
healthy and was being given access to medication.
On May 20, Xinhua reported that the police had concluded that Mr. Ai had
evaded taxes and destroyed financial documents. Ms. Gao said Mr. Ai was
neither the legal representative nor chief executive of Beijing Fake
Cultural Development Ltd., and so should be freed.
Mr. Cohen said the circumstances of “qubao houshen” usually meant that the
detainee had agreed to limitations on his or her behavior, and that the
case could be quietly dropped if the detainee adheres to that agreement and
other compromises made. Legally, the police can continue to pursue the case
for up to one year. During that time, the suspect is allowed freedom of
movement, but the police generally hold on to the person’s travel documents
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: Dissident Chinese Artist Is Released
: BEIJING — Chinese legal authorities have released the dissident artist Ai
: Weiwei after detaining him for nearly three months on suspicion of tax
: evasion, likely ending a prosecution that had become a focal point of
: criticism of China’s human rights record, according to a report on
: Wednesday night by Xinhua, the state news agency.
: Enlarge This Image
: Ng Han Guan/Associated Press
: The dissident artist Ai Weiwei, right, in Beijing on Wednesday after being
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