Ai Weiwei Gets the first family visit

Ai Weiwei was arrested while trying to climb on board a plane to Hong Kong-bound for Beijing detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was allowed his first contact with his family since his arrestThere are more than 40 days.

The artist met his wife at an undisclosed location Sunday and told him that he is, his sister told the BBC.

Mr. AI is supposed to be under investigation for alleged economic crimes. "

The artist is a complaint from a lack of fundamental freedoms, critical of the Government and often incorporating these political themes in his work.

Wife of ai Weiwei Lu Qing has been taken by the Chinese police to meet her husband Sunday afternoon.

The artist's sister has said to the BBC Lu Qing was summoned to the police station and taken to another location where it was allowed a brief meeting with her husband.

Continue reading the main story supported the online campaign to compile the names of the children who died in the earthquake 2008 - many schools whose construction has been have been compromised because of the corruptionIn August 2009, beaten by the police in Sichuan trying to testify for dissident Tan ZuorenAlthough a co-creator of the stage of games Olympics Beijing bird's nest, it was later repudiated the project, condemning China for hosting of the games as "false and hypocritical" his often censored blog was read by 10,000 people per day up to shut down by the authorities in may 2009Ai Weiwei is a "maverick" who "chooses to have a different attitude of ordinary people to act", the overall time said on WednesdayMrs Lu does not know where this place was, but think that it was used for the meeting - she said that she did not believe her husband was detained y.

She noted that Mr. Ai said his those who hold him were taking good care of him, he was in good health and she should not worry.

However, the meeting was very brief, she said, and there were many other people, some of them taking note, so that she was afraid to talk more with her husband.

The family was then warned by police not to discuss the visit with the media that they were told she could "be bad for the case of Mr. Ai".

His family had been demanding to know if it was safe and that more than 43 days have passed since Mr. AI was arrested by the police at the Beijing airport, says the BBC Damian Grammaticas in Beijing.

It had been prohibited any contact with his family or his lawyers.

Calls by Governments around the world for more information and the artists had not produced any response from the Chinese authorities.

Chinese Foreign Ministry insisted that the case of Mr. Ai has "nothing to do with freedom of expression and human rights".