Latest: The Chinese girl who splashed ink on Xi Jinping's portrait in 2018 resurfaced in a video on Twitter yesterday, accusing #Beijing of the ongoing surveillance and vowed to earn her freedom through the video. Now, all her new tweets have been deleted.https://t.co/S0mLOUBHKL

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) December 1, 2020

“After I was released from the hospital for the second time, they forced me to work at the local government in Hunan Province,” said Dong in the video. “Rather than describing it as ‘work,’ it’s actually a form of surveillance.

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) December 1, 2020

Dong emphasized in the video that if the Chinese government sent her to the mental hospital again, she may not be able to walk out of the hospital alive. She wanted to fight for her own freedom through the video.

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) December 1, 2020

Even though they don’t intimidate me or harass me, they still make it clear that they don’t want me to make friends. They also don’t want me to contact my father.”

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) December 1, 2020

A few days ago, an accident happened at the coal mine that Dong’s father works at. He had some minor injuries and his daughter called him on December 1, after she learned about the accident from her friend. She told him to visit her once his injuries heal.

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) December 1, 2020

Dong also said that the local government has not allowed him to meet her, and they also ban him from expressing opinions online. While his daughter faces the possibility of being sent into the mental hospital for the third time,…

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) December 1, 2020

Dong said in the video. “I’m willing to bear any consequences. All I want to ask the government is: have I done anything wrong? Have I violated any law? Am I really mentally ill?”

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) December 1, 2020

@LeoLanCHRD from @CHRDnet says the video Dong uploaded to Twitter reflects the reality facing dissidents in China. “No matter how well one’s life used to be, they are doomed in every aspect of their lives,” said Lan.

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) December 1, 2020

“I’m very concerned that her condition will deteriorate if she were sent to the mental hospital again,“When dissidents are discredited as ‘insane,’ ‘sanity’ is only an act of obedience to the government under such an authoritarian regime.

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) December 1, 2020

In July 2018, Dong expressed her dissatisfaction towards the Chinese government’s authoritarian rule, and she accused Beijing of brainwashing Chinese citizens on a daily basis.

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) December 1, 2020

Later that month, they sent her back to her hometown in Hunan Province and sent her into a mental hospital in the name of “mental illness.”

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) December 1, 2020

… which turned her into a different person.

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) December 1, 2020

Apart from continuing to be unresponsive and slow, she would pee her pants without realizing that she needed to change her pants. Dong would sometimes scream at night and when it was raining and thundering, she wouldn’t let anyone get close to her.

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) December 1, 2020

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— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) December 1, 2020