More Detained by Government in Ai Weiwei Case, Worldwide Protests Target Chinese Embassies

The battle for the release of detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has continued to grow, following his arrest as he attempted to leave Beijing at the start of this month. On Friday evening, it was discovered that Chinese authorities have also detained Weiwei’s lawyer and a designer who worked with the artist, neither of whom have been heard from for the past six days. These disappearances add two more people to a list of those who have vanished that includes not only the artist but his accountant, his cousin, and a close friend.