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Gao Ying, the 78-year old mother of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, speaks beside a bronze sculpture of her late husband Ai Qing, in her Beijing home on May 17, 2011
Wednesday, Nov. 09, 2011

Open quoteI have these words for the authorities: [it is a] creepy, crooked, evil way.Close quote

  • GAO YING,
  • mother of Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, speaking out against Beijing officials after her recently freed son was handed a $2.4 million tax bill
Photo: FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP / Getty Images | Source: The Guardian