>> Silenced. >> The plight of a Chinese woman who recently briefly found her voice on Twitter only to be silenced again at once shows the extent of control the country’s authorities exert over their population, and the harm that constant surveillance can inflict on an individual. >> Dong Yaoqiong’s troubles started in July 2018, when she protested against China’s Communist Party (CCP) by pouring ink on a poster depicting President Xi Jinping and live streamed the whole thing on Twitter. She was working as a real estate agent in Shanghai at the time. >> Since then, until this December, she has reportedly been detained on three different occasions, twice in psychiatric hospitals where she was forced to take medication for alleged mental issues.