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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition World Artist Ai Weiwei says under house arrest in Beijing AFP - Saturday, November 6 Send IM Story Print Artist Ai Weiwei says under house arrest in Beijing BEIJING (AFP) - – Chinese artist Ai Weiwei said Friday that police have put him under house arrest in Beijing to stop him attending a party at his new Shanghai studio, which officials have earmarked for demolition. Ai had planned a feast for supporters featuring 10,000 crabs -- an autumn delicacy -- at the studio on Sunday as an ironic celebration of a decision by authorities to demolish the studio, after they had persuaded him to build it. Ai said state security officials in Beijing told him he would not be able to leave his home until after midnight on Sunday. "Ai Weiwei shall be put under house arrest immediately until 2400 on the 7th and must not leave his residence," the artist wrote on Twitter, citing the order. Ai's work is currently being showcased at a giant installation at London's Tate Modern gallery, where he has filled the main hall with millions of porcelain sunflower seeds. His perhaps best-known work is his collaboration with Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron, on the National Stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, known as the "Bird's Nest", which he has since renounced as a fake "smile". The artist had planned a banquet on Sunday including Chinese wine and 10,000 crabs -- the word "river crab" in Chinese sounds like "harmonise", a euphemism for government censorship. "Please accept my deepest apologies," he wrote to his supporters via Twitter. When one supporter asked if the event would go ahead -- adding he was already on a train to Shanghai -- Ai responded: "Can the train turn around?" A representative for the artist confirmed to AFP that Sunday's event had been cancelled. Officials told the Global Times, a Communist Party-published newspaper, that Ai had been issued a demolition notice on October 19 because the building had not been approved through the proper procedures. Ai told the newspaper that a district head in Shanghai, Sun Jiwei, had invited him to build a studio to help launch a new complex for artists two years ago and he signed a 30-year lease in 2008. The artist said district officials had offered to compensate him for the 2,000-square-metre (21,000-square-foot) studio, which cost one million dollars and was completed in March but has yet to open. Ai had cranial surgery last year for injuries sustained during an incident with police in southwestern Sichuan province, where he was investigating the collapse of schoolhouses in the May 2008 earthquake that left more than 87,000 people dead or missing. Recommend Send IM Story Print Related Articles US-ENTERTAINMENT Summary Reuters - 1 hour 37 minutes ago Dark, euthanasia comedy wins Rome film festival Reuters - 1 hour 37 minutes ago Belgian euthanasia comedy wins Rome film festival AFP - 1 hour 50 minutes ago Michael Jackson new album vocals genuine, Sony says Reuters - 1 hour 57 minutes ago MSNBC suspends Olbermann over political donations Reuters - 2 hours 21 minutes ago News Search Top Stories US adds jobs for first time since May RBS bank plunges back into loss RBS plunges into red with third quarter loss World's oldest axe found in Australia NASA comet fly-by yields rare images from deep space More Top Stories » ADVERTISEMENT Most Popular Most Viewed Most Recommended Be fit, have fewer colds: study NASA comet fly-by yields rare images from deep space Rolls-Royce recommends engine checks after A380 incident Atom smasher ventures deeper into 'new frontier' World's oldest axe found in Australia More Most Viewed » Alcohol more harmful than heroin, crack cocaine: study Toddler survives seven-floor fall in France Spectacular unknown species found in Amazon Ancient galaxy is more than 13 billion light years away Moon's 'treasure chest' includes silver More Most Recommended » Elsewhere on Yahoo! Financial news on Yahoo! Finance Stars and latest movies Best travel destinations More on Yahoo! News Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Subscribe to our news feeds Top StoriesMy Yahoo!RSS » More news feeds | What are news feeds? Also on Yahoo! Answers Groups Mail Messenger Mobile Travel Finance Movies Sports Games » All Yahoo! Services Site Highlights Singapore Full Coverage Most Popular Entertainment Photos Yahoo! News Network Copyright © 2010 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Community - Intellectual Property Rights Policy - Help

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