China Activist
Supporting Ink girl: Chinese activist charged with inciting subversion
Beijing: A Chinese activist has been charged with “inciting subversion of state power" offence for retweeting a video of “ink girl” Dong Yaoqiong, media reports said.
The ground against which he has been charged is an offence punishable by life imprisonment.
Ou Biaofeng had been placed in administrative detention for 15 days in early December for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” after he retweeted a video of Dong, who earned her nickname by defacing a poster of leader Xi Jinping in 2018, reports Hong Kong Free Press.
Dong had live-streamed the video of herself splashing ink on the poster while accusing the Communist Party of “thought control.” She was sent to a psychiatric facility, reported the news portal.
In a video released in early December, which Ou retweeted, Dong said she was on “the brink of breaking down” due to intensive surveillance after being released from the facility, the news portal reported.
【特殊的圣诞节礼物】几经辗转终于拿到欧彪峰涉嫌煽动覆国家政权罪指定监视居住通知书，想到今天国保走之前说的那句，（你们）不过是“一介草民”，何必操心国家大事？是啊，不过是无权无势的血肉之躯，何德何能颠覆一个国家？然而，如这纸通知书写明的，欧彪峰以他长期以来的行动换来这一纸“荣誉证书” pic.twitter.com/DS9v9X9GRh
— 魏欢欢 (@joyceweingo3) December 25, 2020
On December 18, the day before Ou’s scheduled release, his wife Wei Huanhuan was told by police that he had been placed in residential surveillance at an undisclosed location, according to her Twitter account. Their home was then searched by police, the news portal reported.
Wei Huanhuan tweeted: "After several twists and turns, I finally got the notice of designated residence surveillance by Ou Biaofeng on the suspicion of inciting overthrow of state power. Thinking of the sentence before the National Security Council left today, (you) are just 'a grassroots' event? Yes, it's just a flesh and blood body with no power and no power. How can He subvert a country? However, as stated in this notice, Ou Biaofeng exchanged his long-term actions for this 'certificate of honor']."
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