Contemporary artist and outspoken dissident Ai Weiwei did not show off his recently-returned passport, a day after Chinese authorities lifted his four-year international travel ban. Instead, he offered a simple, quiet smile.
"My heart is at peace. I feel quite relieved," Ai said, in an exclusive interview with CNN in Beijing.
"Every human or citizen needs -- if they travel -- they need a passport. And mine [was] taken away with no clear reason. And now it's back."
The artist, modestly dressed in shorts and an untucked, buttoned-down blue shirt, spoke at the galleries in Beijing where he says he's been displaying his first solo exhibit in the country of his birth.
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