"Only your family is crying out that you're missing. But you can't get answers from the street communities or officials, or even at the highest levels, the court or the police or the head of the nation," Ai wrote of his experience in Newsweek. "My wife has been writing these kinds of petitions every day, making phone calls to the police station every day. Where is my husband? Just tell me where my husband is. There is no paper, no information." China's official Xinhua news agency rejected the criticisms, saying that proposed amendments would "further help protect human rights, and conforms rather than contradicts international conventions", citing more legal scholars.