Recently, Dong Yaoqiong, a Hunan woman who was rumored on the Internet to have thrown ink at Xi Jinping‘s portrait, was sent to a local psychiatric hospital for the third Time. She had tweeted last month that U.S. diplomats had indirectly told her they wished to meet with her privately after learning of her recent condition. Dong Yaoqiong’s father confirmed to the station on Tuesday that his daughter had been sent to the hospital again.
Chinese dissident Hua Chong, who was arrested in solidarity with Dong Yaoqiong and later exiled in Thailand, tweeted Monday that the “ink throwing girl” was again admitted to the psychiatric unit of Zhuzhou City Hospital last week. This is the third time she has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital since she threw ink at a portrait of Xi Jinping.
Huayong also tweeted to the U.S. Embassy and Consulate General in Beijing on Tuesday, telling officials at the embassy that Dong Yaoqiong had tweeted last month about the U.S. diplomat’s desire to meet with her.
Disclosure of U.S. diplomat’s desire to meet with her
Screenshots of the tweet show that Dong Yaoqiong recently said that Ou Biaofeng, a Hunan Zhuzhou rights activist with close ties to the Dong Family, was arrested late last year because Dong Yaoqiong had previously tweeted a video emphasizing that she was not mentally ill, but was closely monitored by authorities. After learning of the incident, a U.S. diplomat hoped to meet Dong Yaoqiong through Ou Biaofeng. Dong Yaoqiong told Oubiu Feng that she was currently under “full control” and could not go outside, and that a private meeting would be suspected of subverting state power. But Ou Biaofeng said the diplomat demanded a private meeting, and then Ou Biaofeng was arrested.
Hua Chung said he could not confirm whether what Dong Yaoqiong said was true, but he hoped the U.S. government would pay attention to the situation of Dong Yaoqiong and Ou Biao Feng and do its best to rescue them. Our reporter has been unable to find this tweet from Dong Yaoqiong.
This reporter contacted Dong Yaoqiong’s father, Dong Jianbiao, on Tuesday. He said that the state security just came to him on Monday and told him that government workers had sent Dong Yaoqiong to the hospital again a few days ago, but he was not at liberty to give any more details. When asked if he had something to say, Dong Jianbiao said he “wanted to say but didn’t dare to”.
Three times in a psychiatric hospital after spilling ink
In 2018, Dong Yaoqiong, then 28, live-tweeted her complaint against the Chinese Communist Party in front of the HNA building in Shanghai, expressing her opposition to Xi Jinping’s authoritarian and tyrannical rule and the “brain control” oppression imposed on her by the Chinese Communist Party. She also picked up a bottle of ink and threw it at a portrait of Xi Jinping on a government propaganda poster. She tweeted that afternoon that a group of uniformed men were waiting for her outside the door, and then lost contact with the outside world. In the two years since, she has been hospitalized twice in a psychiatric hospital and has been forced to take medication that caused her face to become swollen for a time.
Dong Yaoqiong posted a video last November saying she was put to work for the government after her second discharge, only to be tightly controlled by authorities. She revealed that her freedom to work and interact with others was restricted, and she could not contact her father. She said she decided to tweet now because she is no longer afraid of the government, and if she is sent to a mental hospital again and can’t get out for the rest of her Life, she will accept it.
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