Bird's Nest: Ai Weiwei in English (beta)

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FAKE's two lawyers and their assistant (Liu) Yanping went to the Beijing Tax Bureau first thing this morning to inspect our records. They plan to spend two days photocopying all the materials. This is the "big tax case" which saw early involvement from the police, and which was the grounds for me being illegally disappeared for 81 days. It is also the reason for me later taking a loan of nine million yuan online, with more than thirty thousand creditors requiring an explanation from me.