China court rejects dissident artist's tax evasion appeal

[JURIST] Beijing's Second Intermediate People's Court [official website, in Chinese] on Thursday denied an appeal by dissident artist Ai Weiwei [BBC profile] challenging a 15 million yuan (USD $2.4 million) fine for back taxes. The Chinese government levied the fine against Beijing Fake Cultural Development Ltd., the company that promotes Ai's work. Ai denounced the court's decision [Bloomberg report] as politically motivated and lacking in evidence and declared that he will not pay the fine. The court stated that it...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2012/09/china-court-rejects-dissident-artists-tax-evasion-appeal.php

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