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This file photo taken on November 7, 2010 shows Chinese artist Ai Weiwei sitting in the courtyard of his home in Beijing where he remained under house arrest.
Tuesday, Apr. 05, 2011

Open quoteNow they don't need to kill people, but by detaining people willing to speak out, they think they can snuff out criticism for a long time.Close quote

  • AI XIAOMING,
  • a Chinese academic and documentarian, likening the country's crackdown on dissent — on Sunday, prominent artist and government critic Ai Weiwei was detained — to Beijing's armed suppression of the pro-democracy protests in June 1989
Photo: PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images | Source: Reuters