Ai Weiwei Goes Pink & Middle Finger Over Julian Assange’s Extradition
On Monday, contemporary Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei staged a silent protest outside a London court demanding the release of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, facing extradition to the United States.
Julian Paul Assange from Australia is an editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. Assange became a household name in surveillance whistleblowing in 2010 after releasing 500,000 secret files detailing military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, which compounded him a misfortune of 18 charges as per US's federal law. US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning facilitated the provision.
Ai Weiwei, who has been in exile in Berlin, Germany, left China in 2015 to flee from Beijing's wrath. In solidarity with Assange, Ai says that the US's prosecution of Assange is...