Yu Dongyue (Chinese: ???; Hanyu Pinyin: Yù Dongyuè) was born in Liuyang, a city in Hunan province of China on December 4, 1967.
He is the former arts editor of Liuyang Daily.
In the Tiananmen protests of 1989, following a plan made by his friend Yu Zhijian, he and Lu Decheng threw eggshells full of paint at a portrait of China’s political figure Mao Zedong.
Yu Dongyue was given a 20-year prison sentence for "sabotage" and "counter-revolutionary propaganda”.
He had become badly disturbed psychologically.
He was also criticized for his "very avant-garde views on art." He also had been subjected to various physical tortures because of “reactionary statements” he and his friends made about officials.