China: Famous artist held incommunicado in China: Ai Weiwei

Index Number: ASA 17/019/2011
Date Published: 14 April 2011
Categories: China

Ai Weiwei, an internationally known Chinese artist and critic of the government; Wen Tao,his friend and assistant; Zhang Jingsong, his cousin and driver; Hu Mingfen, his accountant; and Liu Zhenggang, a designer, are all detained incommunicado in China at unknown locations. They are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment.