31st July 2015 18:39 Clock

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Ai Weiwei on his arrival in Munich | © Christof Stache / AFP / Getty Images

The Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei gets unlike initially provided a visa for six months for the UK. The British Home Office also apologized to the artist.

First of all, the UK authorities Ai Weiwei had wanted to only give a visa for three weeks. A longer-term visa was refused on the grounds that he had concealed his criminal past, the Ministry. He had been detained by Chinese authorities without trial 81 days of four years ago.

A spokeswoman for the British Home Office now said Home Secretary Theresa May had not been involved in the decision to reject the long-term visa. You have the case now and issued the instruction to give the artist a visa for six months. At Ai Weiwei also had a written apology “for the inconvenience” has been sent.

Ai Weiwei will travel to London to take part in an exhibition of his works. If he only had the short-term visa, he would have been at a forthcoming in October visit of China’s President Xi Jinping no longer in the country. Ai Weiwei is known as critical of the government artist.

Ai Weiwei was recently a visa for four years for Germany received after the Chinese authorities he had returned his passport. On Thursday afternoon he arrived in Munich. Ai Weiwei has a six year old son who lives in Berlin.