{"id":21506,"date":"2015-07-23T12:41:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T12:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=21506"},"modified":"2024-04-01T06:03:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T10:03:41","slug":"china-returns-passport-to-artist-ai-weiwei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2015\/07\/china-returns-passport-to-artist-ai-weiwei\/","title":{"rendered":"China returns passport to artist Ai Weiwei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday there was good news for Ai Weiwei when the Chinese government returned his passport. \u00a0Back in 2011, Ai was detained and accused of tax evasion. \u00a0In june of 2011, after 81 days, he was finally released and placed on one year&#8217;s probation, but the government retained his passport. \u00a0To read the full article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/07\/22\/arts\/china-ai-weiwei-passport-returned\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 308px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/07\/22\/arts\/china-ai-weiwei-passport-returned\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150722153006-ai-wei-wei-passport-returned-large-169.jpg\" alt=\"150722153006-ai-wei-wei-passport-returned-large-169\" width=\"298\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ai Weiwei<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday there was good news for Ai Weiwei when the Chinese government returned his passport. \u00a0Back in 2011, Ai was detained and accused of tax evasion. \u00a0In june of 2011, after 81 days, he was finally released and placed on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2015\/07\/china-returns-passport-to-artist-ai-weiwei\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[11,9],"class_list":["post-21506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-rehs-contemporary-news","tag-rehs-galleries-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>China Returns Passport To Artist Ai Weiwei<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2015\/07\/china-returns-passport-to-artist-ai-weiwei\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China returns passport to artist Ai Weiwei\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yesterday there was good news for Ai Weiwei when the Chinese government returned his passport. \u00a0Back in 2011, Ai was detained and accused of tax evasion. \u00a0In june of 2011, after 81 days, he was finally released and placed on &hellip; More...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2015\/07\/china-returns-passport-to-artist-ai-weiwei\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/howard.rehs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-07-23T12:41:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-01T10:03:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150722153006-ai-wei-wei-passport-returned-large-169.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Howard L. 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