Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, disappeared by the authorities 20 days ago, is reported to have confessed to charges of tax evasion after being tortured in custody.
Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.