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Ai Weiwei: The Voice Of Treason

Newsweek Magazine has interviewed artist/activist Ai Weiwei about his detention earlier this year and government requirements that he pay $2.4 million in back taxes:Desperate for interaction, Ai began to needle the guards to provoke a response. But they “just sat and stared at me with no expression. They were very young, and clean, and emotionless, like you were not there,” he says. With nothing