
CHINESE artist and dissident Ai Weiwei has broken his silence on political topics for the first time since he was released from a prison in China nearly two months ago, describing in Twitter postings the ''torment'' of business colleagues who had been detained with him and expressing support for two other incarcerated dissidents.
Ai, 54, formerly an outspoken critic of Chinese political and social restrictions, was arrested in April, held for three months by state security officials and later charged with tax evasion arising from his Shanghai art studio business.
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