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Further Information Regarding the Untimely Death of Dafa Practitioner Ouyang Ming in Hubei Province By a Chinese practitioner
8/29/2003 (Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Ouyang Ming was a school teacher in Huanggang City,
Hubei Province. Because he was relatively young (in his 40's), knowledgeable
about computers (which allowed him to more easily break through the information
blockade aimed at keeping truthful information about Falun Gong out of China)
and firm in his determination in practicing Falun Gong, he was looked upon by
officials as one of the most "dangerous" practitioners in terms of his
ability of exposing the persecution. For nearly three years and seven months
after January 2000, Ouyang Ming lived under the constant shadow of dread and
threat caused by the persecution, and was detained by police a total of 4 times.
The following are some of the facts provided by other practitioners who knew his
situation. Ouyang Ming's first detention was in April 2000, when he was abducted and
sent to a brainwashing class aimed at forcing him to give up his beliefs. After
being released, he was sentenced to the Shizishan Forced Labor Camp for one year
because he still refused to give up practicing Falun Gong. In April 2002, just
one month after being released from the labor camp, the Huanggang City police
abducted him once again and sent him to the Huanggang City Number 1 Detention
Center for more than a year. According to Ouyang Ming himself, he had continuous
fever and coughing for nearly a month since May 2003. In mid-June, under near
death conditions, the police sentenced him to two years in the Shayang Forced
Labor Camp. When the labor camp's doctors conducted an x-ray examination and
found a puncture wound in his lung and numerous internal ailments (caused by
police beating and torture), they refused to accept him. In order to evade
responsibility for his critical heath condition, the police contacted Ouyang
Ming's ex-wife (who they had forced to divorce him) on June 24, and sent Ouyang
to the City's Respiratory Disease Hospital. When other practitioners went to the
hospital to see him, the guards at the hospital told them that Ouyang had
Hepatitis B, Tuberculosis, and numerous serious internal ailments. The police in
the detention center should have provided a prognosis record for Ouyang's
conditions, but instead they kept them secret. After practitioners saw Ouyang,
he was a completely different person than before. He was like a walking skeleton
and was very sensitive to the cold. He also had an uncontrollable cough. Even
though he was in his 40's, he appeared to be like someone in his late 50's. He
was extremely fragile and needed two people to hold him when walking. At the City's Respiratory Disease Hospital, Ouyang did not have anyone to
help him out. His parents had passed away, and his two brothers were both
overseas. His ex-wife was also not around. Neither his working unit nor the
police sent anyone to look after him, and he had no income at all. All the fees
charged by the detention center and the hospital were paid by his ex-wife. After
four days at the hospital, there was no apparent improvement in his health, so
Ouyang asked to be discharged from the hospital so he could go home. On July 10
he moved from his home to the house of another Falun Gong so they could take
care of him. The other practitioner cooked and took care of his personal needs,
and he was quite content in that environment. After a while his health improved
and he could study the Falun Gong books and do the exercises on a daily basis,
and his life was basically back to normal. Between the later part of July and early August, Ouyang asked other
practitioners to send truth clarification materials to his friends,
administrators and management officials in his parents' workplace (the Huanggang
City Food Bureau), hoping that they could have a proper understanding of Falun
Gong. When the police found out, they declared that they wouldn't let him off
that easy and tried to track him down once again. On August 19, he felt a bit
tired so he did not do his regular Fa study and exercise practice. When another
practitioner asked him if he felt uncomfortable, he said he was fine, other than
feeling a bit uptight. He appeared to be normal and had his regular meal. In the
early morning of August 20 around 1:30 a.m., he said that he would write a
letter to his ex-wife and child the next day, asking for their understanding and
wishing them all the best. In the morning, when others tried to awake him for breakfast, they found that
he had passed away. When they changed his clothes, they noticed that there were
large dark colored patches on his back. His death was not caused from short-term
conditions. The non-stop detention and torture he received by police had pushed
his physical body beyond its limit, causing it to eventually collapse. Posting date: 9/10/2003 |