The couple of artists who were unreachable in China after painting a politically sensitive work has been "released" and is preparing to return to France, he said Monday, December 25 on Twitter. "I was released a few days ago and we are now in my hometown," Hu Jiamin wrote on the social network.
With his French wife, Marine Brossard, Hu Jiamin had not given any news since December 15, after making a mural in tribute to Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Peace Prize died in July after eight years of detention for to have demanded democratic reforms in the Middle Kingdom.
A Hong Kong daily, the Ming Pao, claimed that the couple, living in Lyon, had been arrested after the work had been covered by the authorities. Everything related to Liu Xiaobo remains taboo in China.
An empty chair in front of bars
In his message written in English, Hu Jiamin does not specify the reasons for his detention but said he plans to return to France on the 30th. He adds that the couple had to change their return ticket "to avoid entering Hong Kong , to avoid getting into trouble.
Marine Brossard's brother, Mael, had previously told Agence France Presse that his brother-in-law had been released Thursday and that his sister had not been detained. The two young men had traveled to Shenzhen, in southern China, to participate in an exhibition of town planning and architecture.
They had managed to expose a fresco showing an empty chair in front of bars. This image evoked the memory of Liu Xiaobo: unable to travel to Norway to receive his Nobel Prize in 2010, the Chinese dissident was represented at the ceremony by an empty chair.
Liu Xiaobo died in cancer custody without the authorities letting him go abroad for treatment. His widow Liu Xia is still de facto under house arrest without any crime ever being held against her.
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