Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (center) and four women pose naked, in this undated handout released on November 21, 2011. Chinese Internet users’ latest show of solidarity with Ai, whose 81-day secret detention in 2011 sparked an international outcry, took the unlikeliest form of protest: mass nudity. By the afternoon of November 21, 2011, seventy people had posted nude photos of themselves on a website called “Ai Wei Fans’ Nudity — Listen, Chinese Government: Nudity is not Pornography” — a rare form of protest in a country where public nudity is still taboo. They uploaded the photos after Beijing police questioned Ai’s videographer Zhao Zhao on November 17, 2011, for allegedly spreading pornography online by taking nude photographs of Ai and four women.
Zhao Zhao
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