It was not a joke or a hoax insisted Claire Doherty, the director of Situations, the Bristol-based public art organisation that commissioned Sailstorfer and was organising proceedings.
It's a co-production by the avant-garde art organisation Artangel.
In November, officials raided the Contemporary Image Collective, another art organisation in central Cairo, confiscating several computers and detaining a junior employee for questioning for a day.
The work, created by the Spanish artist Jorge Otero-Pandos and commissioned by the audacious art organisation Artangel, will dominate Westminster Hall later this summer.
Mr Fayadh, a member of British-Saudi art organisation Edge of Arabia, was sentenced to death on 17 November, in a verdict that has prompted renewed condemnation of Saudi Arabia's record on human rights.
The company supported some of the most radical art projects - including the pioneering art organisation Artangel - and funded the ICA's Beck's Futures, the edgy, brilliant and, at times, downright infuriating naughty younger brother of the Turner prize.
In Lincolnshire, visual art organisation Beacon is preparing for its 10th anniversary by working once again with some of the artists and heritage sites with whom they've collaborated since 2004.
Run by the Art Organisation co-op, this scruffy, brilliant veggie/vegan cafe and bar has, in the meantime, evolved into a key creative hub, over four floors of rehearsal rooms, studios, performance and exhibition spaces.
