It’s a bitterly cold, bright Saturday afternoon — just last Saturday, in fact — and hundreds of people are queueing in Hyde Park. They’re not waiting to skate at Winter Wonderland or to sit on Father Christmas’ lap. Although Ai Weiwei is wearing a Santa hat.
The artist, activist and Chinese dissident is at Speaker’s Corner for Human Rights Day, signing blank sheets of paper with invisible ink: a nod to the recent ‘A4 revolution’ in China where public outcry over President Xi Jinping’s harsh ‘Zero Covid’ policies have led to the most significant protests in a generation.
