
New Yorkers joined a global protest Sunday demanding the Chinese government free an artist best known for designing the National Beijing Stadium for the 2008 Olympics.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in front of the Chinese Consulate in midtown to display their outrage over the arrest earlier this month of Ai Weiwei.
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