The following post by artist Huang Kui (黄奎) about riots earlier this week in Zhongshan, Guangdong province, was deleted from Sina Weibo sometime before 11pm Hong Kong time yesterday, June 27, 2012. Huang Kui has just under 26,000 followers, according to numbers from Sina Weibo. [More on deleted posts at the WeiboScope Search, by the Journalism and Media Studies Centre].
Huang’s post, which provides a link to a video on Sina.com that was still available as of 12:36pm on June 28, reads cryptically:
Zhong – Shan – Sha – Xi – Video: http://t.cn/zWLDnMC
The video of the Zhongshan unrest is available here.
The original Chinese post follows:
中-山-沙-溪-视频:http://t.cn/zWLDnMC
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