“Artist Detained in Growing Crackdown”: a prisão de Ai Weiwei (ITA 2012)
Artist Detained In Growing Crackdown
BEIJING
1 Ai Weiwei, China’s most prominent dissident after imprisoned Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, was detained April 3 at the Beijing airport as he tried to board a flight to Hong Kong. Perhaps best known for codesigning the 2008 Beijing Olympic stadium known as the Bird’s Nest, Ai is an outspoken critic of the government an has been detained several times. During one period in custody, he was allegedly beaten so badly that he required brain surgery. This arrest comes amid a widespread crackdown touched off by online calls for a
5 Tunisian-style “jasmine revolution.” Over the past several weeks, at least 26 activists have been detained, 200 have been put under house arrest, and more than 30 have disappeared. Time, April 18, 2011.
Fonte: Time, 18/4/2011.
Segundo o texto, Ai Weiwei
- A) alegou ter sido severamente torturado.
- B) foi preso devido a um recrudescimento da repressão na China.
- C) embarcou num voo para Hong Kong.
- D) foi preso por incitar uma revolução nos moldes da tunisiana.
- E) foi quem projetou o estádio olímpico de Pequim.