{"id":29917,"date":"2012-09-29T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=29917 "},"modified":"2012-09-29T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T15:35:00","slug":"29917-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=29917","title":{"rendered":"Chinese court upholds $2.4 million fine against Ai Weiwei"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/widget.newsinc.com\/single.html?WID=2&amp;VID=23824930&amp;freewheel=69016&amp;sitesection=csmonitor\" height=\"320\" width=\"425\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>By Reuters \/ September 26, 2012<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A Chinese court upheld a $2.4 million tax evasion fine against China&#8217;s most famous dissident Ai Weiwei on Thursday, in a case that has badly tarnished the country&#8217;s already poor human rights reputation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;It&#8217;s an extremely shameless court,&#8221; Ai, whose 81-day detention last year sparked an international outcry, told reporters.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;It didn&#8217;t respect the facts or give us a chance to defend ourselves; it has no regard for taxpayers&#8217; rights,&#8221; he said, adding he did not know whether now he had to pay to entire fine though he suspected he did.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ai, 55, had asked the Chaoyang District Court to overturn the city tax office&#8217;s rejection of his appeal against the 15 million yuan ($2.38 million) tax evasion penalty imposed on the company he works for, Beijing Fake Cultural Development Ltd, which produces his art and designs.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;From the Fake tax case (we) can see that there&#8217;s no fair justice in China,&#8221; Ai added.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>TContinue reading<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Latest-News-Wires\/2012\/0926\/Chinese-court-upholds-2.4-million-fine-against-Ai-Weiwei-video\"><strong> original article.<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;A Chinese court ruled that artist and dissident Ai Weiwei will have to pay a $2.4 million tax evasion fine. Many view the fine as a way of silencing Ai&#39;s criticisms of the government.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}