Ai Weiwei supporters go naked as artist faces 'porn' investigation...

When artist Ai Weiwei disappeared, supporters made online appeals for his return. When authorities handed him a £1.5m tax bill, they sent money to help pay it. And now that he faces an investigation for spreading pornography – his admirers have stripped off.

Internet users began tweeting their nude photographs after Ai announced that authorities had questioned his cameraman over pictures which showed the artist and four women naked.

Many Chinese contemporary artists have taken pictures of themselves without clothes, and the pictures of Ai that have emerged so far do not appear sexually charged. Some suspect that it may be an attempt by the authorities to smear the artist, whose 81-day detention this spring caused international outrage.

Officials accused him of economic crimes but supporters say the authorities are engaged in a vendetta because of Ai's social and political activism and criticism of the government. More + photo...

Don't miss:

1. China: painter uses daughter as nude model...
2. Israeli women pose nude in support of Egypt's naked blogger, Aliaa Magda...
3. Aliaa Magda Elmahdy: Egyptian activist causes outrage with nude photos...
4. Femen topless activists celebrate Berlusconi exit...
5. Spain's nudists: we are clean, healthy and respectable...
6. Model's nude photos provoke controversy in prudish Vietnam...
7. Taiwanese singer Lee Mi strips to protest nuclear power...