UK Apologizes To Ai Weiwei, Grants Him Six-Month Visa

PEOPLE Posted: July 31, 201511:14 am

"On Thursday Ai disclosed that the British embassy inBeijing had turned down his request for a business visa,saying he had failed to disclose a criminal conviction.Instead it gave him a visa covering 20 days in September,when a major exhibition of Ai's work is opening atLondon's Royal Academy."

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