Plaintiff was not even allowed at the hearing of his own business

Court of Beijing rejected the claim of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, a dissident to the city's tax office. Recall that Ai Weiwei, who survived a multi-day detention in spring 2011, tried by the court to reconsider presented to him a fine from the tax service in the amount of 15 million yuan ($ 2.4 million). This is the amount of tax unpaid by his company supposedly Beijing Fake Cultural Development Ltd. Claims of tax artist named unproven.

first general court of Beijing did not want to take to the lawsuit Ai Weiwei , arguing its actions to assure the absurd requirement of a claim previously withdrawn the company seal. Then it did promise to review , however, in the words of the plaintiff, there was "absolutely no hope "that the court rules in his favor.

So what happened, and the artist is not even allowed to go to the hearing of his own affairs. "The verdict confirms that in this country, even 60 years after its foundation, there is no underlying legal proceedings, there is still no respect for the truth and the taxpayers and citizens will never be able to justify itself" - expressed their dissatisfaction with the decision of the court painter.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources : guardian.co.uk , artinvestment.ru