Weekly News Summary – April 8
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Apr 9, 2011 by Luke Hunt
Stephen Tucker looks at the headlines making news this week from around south-east Asia and a little bit beyond.
China warned the world against interfering in the case of renowned dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who was detained at an airport by authorities five days ago.
Human rights groups rejected ardent claims by the Foreign Ministry that he was being held on suspicion of “economic crimes”, and instead say that he is just merely the latest government critic to be detained in a crackdown on activists, dissidents and human rights lawyers.
The Chinese government has reason to be confident that it can control the issue diplomatically, however, when even legendary musician Bob Dylan, a leading crusader during America’s civil rights era,....
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