A protester from Heilongjiang, was arrested in Tiananmen Square for throwing paint on Chairman Mao's portrait, the Telegraph reports.

"The audacious attack echoes the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest when three young men threw ink-filled eggs at the portrait in a gesture of defiance against China' Communist ruling party that resonated around the world." A photograph of their attack is seen at right with LRF founder and executive director Harry Wu.

The famous Mao portrait's last attack was in 2007, "when Gu Haiou, a 35-year-old man from the far western province of Xinjiang, threw a burning object at the picture scorching the lower-left hand corner."

Apparently, "a spare that is always kept on hand for such eventualities."  For more see the Telegraph.

Over the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre on June 4, China’s censorship authorities were working overtime, blocking access to Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail, and other popular sites. Attempting to squelch information and opinion that would damage China’s Communist Party’s reputation, the CCP even “detained a number of political dissidents seen as threats to public order during the anniversary period,” the New York Times reported.

According to Reporter Without Borders, “The information blackout has been enforced so effectively for 20 years that most young Chinese are completely unaware of this major event.” “Twenty years later, it is still impossible for the Chinese media to refer freely to the ruthless suppression of China’s pro-democracy movement in June 1989.”