Chinese artist and government critic Ai Weiwei has been prevented from leaving China in a move that may be linked to next week's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. Prominent Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained Sunday at Beijing’s airport as he was about to board a flight, and his studio was later raided by police. Weiwei has famously used the Internet to trace the identities of more than 5000 students who died on account of the earthquake in the province of Sichuan in 2008. ... Ai Weiwei, the outspoken artist detained last year, said Mo might have literary … May 12, 2008; measured at 8.0; about 69,000 people died and 4.8 million people were left homeless; schoolhouses were built very poorly and many collapsed killing tons of children; AI Weiwei challenged Chinese government over this; his blog served as a platform for the Sichuan Earthquake Names Project (an effort to collect the names of deceased students across Sichuan province) Chinese pro-democracy dissident Liu Xiaobo just won the Nobel Peace Prize (from prison) and vocal Chinese artist Ai Weiwei gets exhibition space at … Mo Yan's Nobel prize for literature sparks celebration in China. Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Following the Nobel announcement, these complaints were voiced strongly by dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who said, "Giving the award to a writer like this is … In the spirit of “democracy in action,” according to a statement from fair director Juergen Boos, the fair has no plans to remove potentially controversial figures, including an emissary from the Dalai Lama, exiled Nobel Prize winner for Literature Gao Xingjian and Ai Weiwei, from its event schedule. Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei says China's imprisonment of ailing Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo is "a shame for the Chinese government and a shame for the international community." Chinese dissident wins Nobel Peace Prize. Travelling installation by Ai Weiwei, the Chinese imprisoned artist the world demanded be released; ... a friend of the artist and her Nobel Peace prize-winning husband Liu Xiaobo. The Chinese media have been spreading false stories on Xiaobo, telling that he is a criminal and that the Nobel Peace Prize he has been awarded is an insult to China. The Norwegian Nobel committee awarded him this year's peace prize, which is scheduled to be presented at a ceremony in Oslo on December 10. But fellow activist Ai Weiwei tells Channel 4 News it won’t change anything in China.
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