Chinese contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei (Beijing, 1957) highlighted this Saturday at the Hay Festival in Segovia “afraid” of returning Chinese and lose your freedom“As long as I was kept in a secret cell, I wouldn’t be happy, I wouldn’t be able to take anyone, I wouldn’t be comfortable, or I wouldn’t be afraid to go back,” he said.
In an interview via videoconference with Anne McElvoy, editor-in-chief of The Economist, whose questions are mainly based on memories of who participated in the design of the National Stadium in Beijing, she clarified the topic titled ‘1000 Years of Joy and Sorrow’. He “I am a Chinese citizen and I have a full right to come back, my mother is quite old, but I wonder if I’m really afraid to go back and lose my freedom”After serving 81 days in prison in 2011.
Ai Weiwei said he wanted it because his mother was very old and sick, but “Return Hong Kong tempting fate after the revolt of the youthWe must be very clear that the authoritarians will do everything in their power to prevent the communists from controlling their lives and their most basic rights, but that the authoritarians will never give up”.
Also, who Investigated government corruption and cover-ups in China, Dedicating himself to music and cinema, Acar, referring to Germany, the country where he lived after leaving the United States, said, “In Western societies with freedom of expression, there are areas that cannot be discussed, there are indisputable issues. Even if an unloved person is brought to light that people are looking elsewhere, they It is not possible to raise it not only in private conversations, but in universities or in the media.
Although the son of poet Ai Qing, who was accused during the Anti-Right Movement in 1958, participated in the beginning of communism with leaders like Mao, Ai Weiwei argued that “human beings should have the opportunity to question a set of values that they consider unbreakable”.To be mentally healthy you have to listen to all the voices, only then can we define ourselves, not wanting to hear arguments from others reminds me of the culture that prevails in China”.
According to the activist, “The Chinese government thinks they are ideologically elite and what he says is indisputable and everyone seems to either obey him or destroy him because he will not be able to find a job and not be considered a good citizen, but it is his natural trait to question the established order. Being human”.
Weiwei, who currently resides in Cambridge (UK) where his son is studying and also farms his garden, has spoken in defense of refugees who have come to the West, and who, in his opinion, are perceived as “almost a problem that happens everywhere, wherever there are people, “There is always the possibility of restricting and abusing these people and their freedom of expression, we have to fight those who restrict this right,” he said.
After her return to Beijing in 1976, she became popular after the entire family was exiled. “Change the political conditions that allow me to influence younger generations,” he writes.There is no hope for the ancients anymore, but they threw me into a deep and completely forgotten well because they saw me as a dangerous person and could not allow their image of the (regime) revolution to be tarnished.
To Weiwei, “demanding social justice is a purpose in lifeHe may lose it, he may be imprisoned, but no price is too high for an individual life.”
He recalled from his detention experience, without formal charge, “an arrest such as kidnapping, followed by a five square meter confinement, a dark period when two soldiers pointed their guns at me 80 centimeters from me.”