An artist that could not be reached for more than a week after he painted a politically charged mural in southern China wrote on Twitter Monday that he has been “released”.
BEIJING: An artist that could not be reached for more than a week after he painted a politically charged mural in southern China wrote on Twitter Monday (Dec 25) that he has been “released”.
“I was released a few days ago and we are in my hometown now,” the Twitter account of painter Hu Jiamin read days after Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao reported that the couple had been taken away by plainclothes men.
Hu noted in another post that he will return to France on Dec 30.
The artist and his French wife, Marine Brossard, had painted a mural honouring China’s late dissident Liu Xiaobo at the entrance of a public exhibition in Shenzhen on Dec 15.
But city authorities covered the wall with a banner the same evening, witnesses told AFP.
