The Times launched the campaign in support of Aya Weiwei
By requiring the release of Chinese dissident joined by Anish Kapoor and Damien Hirst
artists Cornelia Parker (left), Anish Kapoor (right) and employee of the newspaper Times (center) have a poster in support of Aya Weiwei to the UK premiere apartment
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famous English Times newspaper last week launched a campaign of solidarity with detainees China dissident AEM Weiwei (Ai Weiwei). In this issue were published statements of famous people, including Damien Hirst and Anish Kapoor, demanding the immediate release of the artist from custody.
British artist Anish Kapoor is Indian origin, , written in the pages of Times:« When the government makes the artist's silence is evidence of its barbarity ».
Another famous artist Damien Hirst has called the arrest of Aya" another flagrant violation of the Chinese government's human right to freedom of speech "and said that "The international community can not and must not condone this».
By Times also joined in the campaign leading British galleries, including Somerset House and Lisson Gallery, recently opened a new exhibition of works by Aya Weiwei.
a sign of the campaign, a large portrait of Aya with a lot of signatures of members of the British art community personally carried to the headquarters of British Prime Minister David Cameron in Downing Street, 10 artists Anish Kapoor and Cornelia Parker.
Aya on April 3 was detained at Beijing airport while trying to fly to Hong Kong and since then he is in custody . Chinese authorities have brought charges against the artist's series of charges, including "economic crimes» . During all this time his wife allowed only a brief meeting with her husband. After she told the press that the health of 53-year old artist out of danger.
Actions PRC government have been criticized by state and public organizations of the West. In support of the Chinese dissident was organized by the global sit-down demonstration at the Chinese consulates worldwide "1001 chair for Aya Weiwei" . The largest (up to two thousand people) was the protest in Hong Kong .
material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI
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