How to say - what happens to him reminds me the book 1984.
Remember there's a word called "vapourized" in the book? The government dislikes you (there may be a reason, or maybe not), they got you, then you disappear, as if you never ever exist. They erase all data and information relate to you, your family and friends would be too afraid of talking about (or think of) you, and at last, you disappear from the word. Vopourized like water.
I am surprised, thought, that we havent heard of anything about Ai Weiwei at this point of time. There is always a reason: treason, disrupting public order, disclosing national intelligence. The government will immediately tell us "something" about this person, where he is, how he is doing, and what he is charged for. Ai Weiwei is treated the other way round: his mother and sister telling the press they dont know where their son/brother is, a funny charge came out a few days after he is locked up, and no hearing is heard. "Economic crime" - this is something innovative.
There are hundreds of government officials who have committed a few economic crimes still sitting in their grand office, smoking cigar, drinking Chateau Lafie mixed with CocaCola. And Ai Weiwei is the one who got arrested.
"Who is afraid of Ai Weiwei?" - importantly, WHY afraid of Ai Weiwei? What he does is to slap on the government's face and force them to face the problem hidden under prosperity. He keeps digging the truth lying underneath, and someone else will get embarrassed for what he shows (or will show) to the world. Not to mention this is a famous man.
To stop people disclosing the bad things you have done, the best way is to stop doing the bad things but not locking up the honest people.
This is the lesson every government in history must learn. And the little police below.
