Mr. Ou Ziwen Dies as a Result of Torture in the Bazhong Forced Labour Camp, Guizhou Province

Name: Ou Ziwen
Gender: Male
Age: 66
Address: Anshun City, Guizhou Province
Date of Death: April 4th, 2009
Date of Most Recent Arrest: December 1st, 2004
Most recent place of detention: Guizhou Province Zhongba Forced Labour Camp
City: Zhongba Village, Qingzhen City
Province: Guizhou
Occupation: Anshun City Fenglei Army Machinery Factory (144 Factory)

Mr. Ou Ziwen, 66, was severely tortured for practising Falun Gong, resulting in many health problems after he was released from prison in 2007. He died in April 2009, as a result of being tortured.

Mr. Ou began practising Falun Gong in 1998, and people who knew him considered him a very
kind hearted person. At the end of March 2001, he was reported for handing out leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong, and was arrested by Yang Chengbao, the vice-chief of the Factory Police Station and a group of officers from the Xixiu District Police Department.

After they ransacked Mr. Ou's home, the officers detained him for 15 days, then further detained him for two months in the Second Detention Centre. He was released after the guards extorted 3,000 yuan¹ from his family. After Mr. Ou was released, he was put under 24-hour surveillance.

In 2002, he was detained for two months after he wrote a letter in defence of Falun Gong.

On December 1st, 2004, police arrested Mr. Ou again, took his Falun Gong books and materials, and detained him. He was sentenced to three years in the Zhongba Forced Labour Camp where he was regularly tortured with sleep deprivation and heavy labour.

In addition, the guards put Mr. Ou's rice bowel next to the cell's chamber pot and brutally beat him until they knocked out two of his teeth. The guards instructed prisoners to squeeze his private parts and kick him in his lower abdominal area, causing Mr. Ou to pass out for several hours from the acute pain. When he awoke, he started having symptoms of rectal prolapse. The labour camp had no choice but to rush him to the local hospital.

Mr. Ou was finally released in 2007, but due to being brutally tortured in the Zhongba Forced Labour Camp, he suffered from a hernia, became very emaciated, experienced liver, kidney and lung failure, and finally died on April 4th, 2009.

Anshun Fenglei Army Machinery Factory:
Wu Xiaowen, director
Yang Chengbao, former police chief at the Factory
Chen Jun'an, vice-secretary in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners
Zhu Honghui, police chief in the Factory: 86-853-3381164
Tang Xiaoning, retired office chairperson: 86-853-3381704

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/8/16/206607.html