Ai Weiwei Being Investigated for Economic Crimes?

Posted by | Apr 6, 2011

Various people on Twitter reported seeing a Xinhua dispatch announcing that Ai Weiwei is being investigated for economic crimes. But after about an hour, the report was redacted and is now unavailable. Domus (on Twitter at @DomusWeb) took a screenshot:

See also a report from the Guardian. Read more about the detention of Ai Weiwei via CDT.

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