12 August this year, the famous Chinese artist and activist Veyvey Ai (Ai Weiwei), designed in conjunction with Herzog and de Meuron Olympic stadium "Bird's Nest", was attacked by police. Then he began to suffer headaches and lost the ability to concentrate. Recently, Hay arrived in Munich, where he should open his show. There, he felt very ill and was taken to hospital. It turned out that the artist happened to brain hemorrhage. On Monday, Ayu had the surgery. He drilled two holes in his head, to reduce pressure on the brain.

Chinese police began to pursue Aya because of his new project, called "The names of the Sichuan earthquake." The artist wants to present a list of the names of thousands of schoolchildren who died during the earthquake in Sichuan province in May last year. He drew attention to the fact that many deaths could be avoided if the school buildings were built with high quality. In Aya was a blog dedicated to this project, but it was closed after the artist talked about the fact that he was being watched and that his mother would come home some strange person. August 12 Ai was in Sichuan's capital Chengdu, where he was the trial Tanh Tszozhenem (Tan Zuoren), who took the initiative to create a database of dead children. At three o'clock in the morning twenty policemen in uniform and in civilian clothes burst into the hotel room Aya. They started to beat the artist's head and threatened him with death. It is also brutally treated, and with the other ten witnesses in the case of Tanya.

«I almost died - said in an interview with Ai Deutsche Presse-Agentur. - But the doctors saved me, and now I feel good».

Material prepared Yulia Maximova, AI

Source: artinfo.com , artinvestment.ru