From an earlier Danwei post:
Yesterday saw new developments in the case of Deng Yujiao, an employee of a leisure center in Hubei who stabbed a government official to death. According to Deng, she was acting in self-defense against a man who was sexually assaulting her, but the police and government have been advancing the idea that she was emotionally unstable and killed the official unprovoked.
Deng has become China’s latest Internet hero for standing up to what Chinese netizens assume are licentious and corrupt government officials.
This afternoon this statement (image above, in translation below) is all over Twitter and its Chinese clones.
I am Yang Xiao, a Southern People journalist based in Beijing. My colleague Wei Yi was at Deng Yujiao’s grandmother’s home (at Yesanguanmulongya). When he was interviewing her, men of unknown identity beat him up and took him away (New Century Weekly journalist Kong Pu was present).
To find the many tweets that are passing on this news, do searches for the Chinese characters for Yang on Twitter, Fanfou and Jiwai.de.
Update: I have not been able to find the original tweet from Yang Xiao on Twitter or any of its Chinese clones. If any reader knows the URL of Yang Xiao’s stream, please leave it in the comments.
- Danwei: Dueling statements in the Deng Yujiao murder case (quoted above)
- ESWN: Deng Yujiao Tells Her Story
- China Digital Times: Aggegration of Deng Yujiao stories