Chinese Government Demolishes Artist Ai Weiwei's Shanghai Studio

Back in November, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei learned that government officials in Shanghai were planning on demolishing his recently-completed studio on the outskirts of that city, the same facility the government had invited him to build. No stranger to beatings and detainment, the studio became the latest target against Weiwei’s political activism and complaints about human rights abuse in his native China. This week, citing improper building permits, the government lived up to their promise by arriving in the middle of the night to