{"id":25418,"date":"2011-08-10T10:09:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T09:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25418"},"modified":"2011-08-10T10:09:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T09:09:59","slug":"china-ai-weiwei-slams-treatment-of-detained-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25418","title":{"rendered":"China: Ai Weiwei slams treatment of detained activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his most outspoken <a title=\"Twitter - Ai Weiwei\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/aiww\" target=\"_blank\">tweets<\/a> since his release, and despite bail conditions placing him under tight restrictions for at least a year, <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Ai Weiwei\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/ai-weiwei\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ai Weiwei<\/a> today <a title=\"The Guardian - Ai Weiwei hits out at treatment of friends and activists\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2011\/aug\/09\/ai-weiwei-hits-out-china\" target=\"_blank\">lashed out<\/a> at the &#8220;torment&#8221; of friends entangled in his situation and pressed the cases of other detained activists. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t speak for Wang Lihong, and don&#8217;t speak for Ran Yunfei, you are not just a person who will not stand out for fairness and justice; you do not have self-respect,&#8221; he wrote. A prolific Twitter user prior to his arrest, Ai was freed in June after being detained for over two months for supposed tax evasion. Last weekend he began <a title=\"Wall Street Journal: Ai Weiwei Gets Back to Tweeting\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinarealtime\/2011\/08\/08\/ai-weiwei-gets-back-to-tweeting\/\" target=\"_blank\">tweeting<\/a> again, though far more sporadically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his most outspoken tweets since his release, and despite bail conditions placing him under tight restrictions for at least a year, Ai Weiwei today lashed out at the &#8220;torment&#8221; of friends entangled in his situation and pressed the cases of other detained activists. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t speak for Wang Lihong, and don&#8217;t speak for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[728,327,103,7364,700],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25444,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25418\/revisions\/25444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}