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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Vanessa Gera

Exhibition by Chinese dissident artist opens in Warsaw despite pressure from China

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An exhibition by a provocative Chinese artist that criticizes the country's human rights record is opening at a Polish state-run museum on Friday despite pressure from the Chinese embassy to cancel it.

The director of the Center for Contemporary Art in the capital, Warsaw, said the No. 2 diplomat at the Chinese embassy in Warsaw visited his museum demanding the cancellation of the exhibition by the artist, who goes by the name Badiucao.

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