China Targets Artist Ai and Christians

CHINA - Artists and Christians have become the latest targets in the biggest crackdown on the Communist Party's critics in decades, with a leading Beijing "underground" church being left homeless and the country's most controversial art figure detained by police at the weekend. The arrest of international artist Ai Weiwei means that he joins two dozen detained activists across the country who are being held without charges along with up to 23 well-known critics who have "disappeared." [Source: The Australian]