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Ai Weiwei

The Lawyers Who Vanished: Suppression of Political Dissent on the Rise in China

Sonny StephensAugust 12, 2016

The Chinese government recently sentenced a lawyer at a human rights firm to seven years in prison, one of hundreds of such convictions since mid-2015. Sonny Stephens walks us through Xi Jinping’s campaign to crack down on anti-government dissent and use of filmed public confessions to discredit his enemies.

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Ai Weiwei and the Art of Politics

Stella ShannonAugust 9, 2015November 28, 2024

On July 23rd, 2015 Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei left China for the first time in four years. But only after the British Government denied Ai a 6-month visa because he neglected to report tax fraud charges that the Chinese…

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