The Change web platform. org, which museums around the world have gathered over 90,000 signatures calling for the release of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, announced today that it has been attacked by hackers from China. The platform reported on its website that are suffering from Monday intermittent periods of inactivity due to a page denial of service attack DDoS from China.
The attack comes as the campaign has surpassed the 92,000 signatures from 175 countries calling for the release of the famous dissident, detained without charge by the authorities in Beijing on April 3. Ai's creator and activist, known for having participated in the design of the Beijing Olympic Stadium by Sunflower recent exhibition at the London gallery Tate, radicalized his stance against Chinese rule since the 2008 Sichuan earthquake killed thousands of children by the collapse of schools.
Ai and other activists investigating the disaster on its own to reveal that schools had collapsed due to poor quality construction materials because of corrupt Chinese officials. The campaign for his release has been launched by museums worldwide as the Guggenheim in New York, the Tate in London and the Association of Art Museum Directors.
Change. org issued a formal request for assistance to both the FBI and the Department of U.S. State for Asia-Pacific and determined that the source of the attack was in China. "We know the reason or the exact source of these attacks," he said in a statement Ben Rattray, founder of Change.
org. "All we know is that after the unprecedented success of the campaign carried out by museums around the world to ask the Chinese government for the release of Ai Weiwei, we have become victims of a highly sophisticated attack from China" added. Platform engineers have managed to keep it active, but at times have enlisted the help of the U.S.
government, where the site is hosted. China says the most famous conceptual artist in the country is being investigated for alleged economic crimes, and even shuffled some means other unconfirmed allegations as bigamy and kidnapping, although officials have refused to explain why the artist is still detained without a warrant, in violation of Chinese law. 
The attack comes as the campaign has surpassed the 92,000 signatures from 175 countries calling for the release of the famous dissident, detained without charge by the authorities in Beijing on April 3. Ai's creator and activist, known for having participated in the design of the Beijing Olympic Stadium by Sunflower recent exhibition at the London gallery Tate, radicalized his stance against Chinese rule since the 2008 Sichuan earthquake killed thousands of children by the collapse of schools.
Ai and other activists investigating the disaster on its own to reveal that schools had collapsed due to poor quality construction materials because of corrupt Chinese officials. The campaign for his release has been launched by museums worldwide as the Guggenheim in New York, the Tate in London and the Association of Art Museum Directors.
Change. org issued a formal request for assistance to both the FBI and the Department of U.S. State for Asia-Pacific and determined that the source of the attack was in China. "We know the reason or the exact source of these attacks," he said in a statement Ben Rattray, founder of Change.
org. "All we know is that after the unprecedented success of the campaign carried out by museums around the world to ask the Chinese government for the release of Ai Weiwei, we have become victims of a highly sophisticated attack from China" added. Platform engineers have managed to keep it active, but at times have enlisted the help of the U.S.
government, where the site is hosted. China says the most famous conceptual artist in the country is being investigated for alleged economic crimes, and even shuffled some means other unconfirmed allegations as bigamy and kidnapping, although officials have refused to explain why the artist is still detained without a warrant, in violation of Chinese law.
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