China artist Ai Weiwei released on bail

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A message from the twitter account of Mr Ai's lawyer, Liu Xiaoyuan, said he had received a text message from his client's phone which simply read: "I'm out!"

Beijing has clearly been under enormous pressure to free the artist, says the BBC's Damian Grammaticas in Beijing.

The case had generated criticism from the international community that China was breaking its own laws by holding Mr Ai in secret without access to a lawyer, adds our correspondent.

The circumstances of one of Mr Ai's relatives, his accountant and driver, who were detained at the same time as the artist, remain unknown.

Ai Weiwei gained international recognition in the early 1980s for his monolithic brick sculptures.

Last October, he unveiled a carpet of 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds at London's Tate Modern, which he said questioned the role of an individual in society.

source: bbcuk

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