'I'm human, I have to show my attitude': Ai Weiwei interrogated after rude gesture to security camera

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A security camera afixed to a light pole looks into the studio of dissident artist Ai Weiwei in Beijing on Jan. 17, 2012.

Reuters reports from BEIJING:

Activist artist Ai Weiwei, whose 81-day detention last year sparked an international outcry, said he was interrogated by police for five hours on Sunday for throwing stones at and making a rude gesture to surveillance cameras outside his home.

Ai said the stones did not hit the 10 cameras outside his house and he did not think he would face charges.

"They said to me: 'This is a warning because you have to behave'," Ai said. "I said: 'I'll behave. I take your warning seriously. But I'm human, I have to show my attitude. It's just a gesture. You're so powerful, how can I destroy you?'"

Meanwhile, veteran Chinese dissident Zhu Yufu has been indicted on subversion charges for writing a poem urging people to gather to defend their freedoms, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Read the full report.

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With CIA help, NYPD moves covertly in Muslim areas

The AP reports from NEW YORK:

In New Brunswick, N.J., a building superintendent opened the door to apartment No. 1076 one balmy Tuesday and discovered an alarming scene: terrorist literature strewn about the table and computer and surveillance equipment set up in the next room.

The panicked superintendent dialed 911, sending police and the FBI rushing to the building near Rutgers University on the afternoon of June 2, 2009. What they found in that first-floor apartment, however, was not a terrorist hideout but a command center set up by a secret team of New York Police Department intelligence officers. Continue reading.