Artist Ai Weiwei Beaten Again by Chinese Police

Just shy of a year ago, outspoken artist and the designer behind Beijing’s Birds Nest stadium, Ai Weiwei, was detained by Chinese authorities and beaten so badly that he later had to have surgery for a cerebral hemorrhage, all due to his speaking out about that government’s response to its disastrous May 2008 earthquake. While he’s recovered and appeared both on CNN and in a New Yorker profile talking about the incident, the Guardian is reporting that Weiwei has