Dong Yaoqiong (董瑶琼), also known as the “Ink Girl” (泼墨女孩), is a woman from Hunan Province whose July 2018 protest in Shanghai was widely reported.
Radio Free Asia and other outlets reported that Dong livestreamed herself splashing ink on a political poster in Shanghai and was detained soon afterward. Later reporting described repeated confinement in psychiatric institutions.
Her current whereabouts are not reliably established in the public record. Radio Free Asia reported in July 2024 that her whereabouts were unknown. Safeguard Defenders wrote in September 2025 that no reliable public information had emerged since her reported return to Zhuzhou No. 3 Hospital in 2021.
FreeChina.live therefore does not state that Dong is currently in prison, in a hospital, released, deceased, or living at any particular location.
Sources: Radio Free Asia; Human Rights Watch; Safeguard Defenders; Bitter Winter.
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