Social media dissident disappears in China

The disappearance of a 29 year-old woman in Shanghai has sparked an online campaign of users posting defaced images of Chinese president Xi Jinping.

One of the defaced Xi images Source: SBS

Dong Yaoqiong  disappeared last Wednesday  after a video of her throwing black ink on a poster of the Chinese leader went viral.

Now netizens ((citizens of the internet)) have taken to social media imitating Ms Dong’s protest, and demanding answers from the Chinese government.