Chinese Woman missing, feared dead after live-streaming herself throwing ink on pictures of Xi Jinping

Excerpts from the article - > The disappearance of a 29-year-old woman in Shanghai has sparked an online campaign, with social media users sharing defaced public images of Chinese President Xi Jinping. > Dong Yaoqiong disappeared on 4 July after a video of her throwing black ink on a poster of the Chinese leader went viral. ----- > Ms Dong was last seen live-streaming a video of herself defacing a public poster. ----- > Before disappearing, Ms Dong reportedly tweeted an image of three men outside her home. > “From her last tweet you can see through the peephole one plainclothes police and two uniformed police at her door,” [artist] Hua Yong claimed. > “One hour later she was unreachable through her phone or Twitter. Soon after her tweets were deleted, then her account disappeared. Then I posted a tweet telling people to pay attention to what’s happening to her. I assume she no longer has her freedom.” ----- > Patrick Poon, a representative from Amnesty International’s Hong Kong office, said Ms Dong’s treatment is typical of China’s treatment of activists and dissidents. > “For China, they don’t want to see their citizens criticise its state leader in such a manner. They would use every means to crack down on any freedom of expression in such areas.”