Ouyang Ming, a former teacher at Huanggang Industrial School of Hubei Province, suffered 108 different methods of torture methods before passing away due to extreme mental and physical exhaustion.
In November 2003, sixteen Chinese officials who are responsible for the persecution against Falun Gong were sued in Germany by Falun Gong practitioners from Europe, North America and Australia. Among the officials was Zhao Zhifei, deputy head of Hubei Provincial Public Security Bureau, who is being sued for the second time by Falun Gong practitioners on charges of Genocide, Torture and Crimes Against Humanity.
The death of Falun Gong practitioner Ouyang Ming has been part of the lawsuit since the persecution against him occurred in Hubei Province, which is the area Zhao Zhifei should be responsible for. At the time of writing this article, among the 818 cases of Falun Gong practitioners who have been tortured to death, 38 have taken place in Hubei province.
According to a report on December 5th 2003, China recently responded to the death of Falun Gong practitioner Ouyang Ming, a former teacher at Huanggang Industrial School of Hubei Province and the brother of Ouyang Yi, an Australian citizen. In the report, Chinese officials claimed that Ouyang Ming’s death happened because he ran away from the hospital where he was sent for treatment.
Some witnesses testified that Ouyang Ming was originally very healthy; the disabling of his body was the result of experiencing three years and seven months inhumane torture of both mind and body. In June 2003, Ouyang Ming was taken to the Lung Disease Hospital in the city. After being examined, the diagnosis showed that his kidney function was non-existent and his liver function was seriously impaired, whilst he had heart disease, Hepatitis B, a lung cavity, diabetes etc. The doctor couldn't do anything for him because he couldn't take any medication (because he had so many problems, the medicine might be good for one part of his body but have detrimental effects elsewhere). After four days at the hospital, there was no apparent improvement in his condition, besides. There had often been some policemen coming to the hospital and asking Ouyang who had been to visit him, so Ouyang asked to be discharged from the hospital so he could go home. As soon as he got home, evil policemen Zhou Yuhua and Chen Shuming called at his house and Chen Shuming left an intimidating message that Ouyang Ming would soon be arrested again.
If he hadn’t suffered such terrible abuse because he practises Falun Gong, Ouyang Ming wouldn’t have obtained so many diseases; the doctors couldn’t do anything to cure his illnesses. But for the persecution, Ouyang Ming wouldn’t have been sent to hospital and passed away in his middle age.
Further information on the death of Ouyang Ming
According to a report on September 4th 2003, Falun Gong practitioner Ouyang Ming, who is was an excellent teacher at Huanggang Industrial School of Hubei Province, passed away on August 20th 2003. His death left his relatives, particularly his daughter, in sombre mourning: such a young child lost her father forever at the tender age of 13.
The persecution of Ouyang Ming during his three years and seven months of torture
During the period between January 2000 and August 20th 2003, Ouyang Ming underwent tremendous torture and suffering. The narratives which we are discussing here are only a minor part of what he had actually suffered in prison. Ming himself didn’t talk too much about his experiences with other Falun Gong practitioners prior to his death; he said it’s very hard and painful to look back at the persecution he suffered.
An excellent teacher, a dutiful son
Ouyang Ming, an outstanding student who graduated from Huazhong Science and Engineering University, once got the chance to study abroad because of his excellent grades. But his father didn’t want all of his three sons to live abroad (One of Ouyang Ming’s brothers is in Australia and the other is in Germany.), he wanted at least one of his sons to stay with him at home. So his father quietly tore up Ouyang Ming’s offer letter. Ouyang Ming understood his father’s feeling, therefore, he gave up his plan of travelling abroad. He had always been interested in science, so after thinking deeply and rationally, he decided to practise Falun Dafa in 1994. He has gained many benefits from practising both mentally and physically and dropped his bad temper. He worked tirelessly and conscientiously and held no wish for personal gain and fame. Because of this, his students genuinely loved him. At home, he has always been a dutiful son. His father passed away but he has got two brothers, one lives in Australia and the other twin brother lives in Germany. So he took the utmost care of his sick mother, who had been paralysed for many years. He not only carried his mother to the bathroom whenever it was necessary, he also bathed her daily and helped her turn over in bed at night. He was so busy that he stayed up until one or two o’clock in the morning and never complained about it. However, Ouyang Ming had been attentively looking after his paralysed mother who could only lie in the bed for many years.
No way to appeal to the higher authorities for help, Ouyang Ming went to Tiananmen Square.
Since the persecution against Falun Gong started, in order to let more precious Chinese people know the truth behind the lies and propaganda, in order to let the government have a clear and righteous understanding of Falun Gong, in order to stop the persecution against hundreds and hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners, he decided to use his personal experience of six-year practising to clarify the truth of Falun Gong and let the government know the great impact it had among society and people; although he knew the consequences of telling the people the truth and peaceful appealing to the government such as he might loose his job and family, he still believed that someone who has justice and conscience in his mind should take the responsibility to let the whole country know the truth of Falun Gong.
On January 15th 2000, in his winter holiday, Ouyang Ming took the train to Beijing without hesitation. The officials at the state appeals office wouldn’t listen to what Falun Gong practitioners had to say, but turned it into a place where the police could easily arrest Falun Gong practitioners. Since he saw no other recourse, Ouyang Ming went by himself to Tiananmen Square to practise Falun Gong.
108 torture methods were used on Ouyang Ming in the First Detention Centre of Huanggang
Ouyang Ming was arrested and taken to the First Detention Centre of Huanggang, where he was held for over a month and suffered inhumane torture. The criminals not only cruelly beat him every day but also urinated on his face after forcing him to crouch. As soon as he arrived at the detention centre, he was tortured using many cruel methods. For example: ‘hammer of the heart’ (he was forced to lean against the wall while the criminals repeatedly punched his chest near his heart until they were exhausted); ‘roast meat’ (they continuously punched his face until it looked like roasted meat); ‘roast pig feet’ (they hit his fingers and toes with heavy tools); etc. Even after being beaten, he was forced to stay in one position for a long period of time without moving. He suffered through all of the ‘108 cruel torture methods’ that the criminals had inflicted on him. This seriously damaged his physical condition.
The mental torture he suffered was not easier. For example, he asked to see his mother for one last time when she was dying. The "610 office" of Huanggang City and the Public Security Bureau refused. Li Ming, the head of the Police Station, transferred Ouyang Ming to the violent criminal section because he persisted in cultivating Falun Gong, and incited the criminals to beat him savagely. His face became unrecognisable due to the beatings; it was beaten so badly that the bleeding couldn't be stopped for over two hours. His whole body was swollen, the skin ruptured and the flesh punctured. Later on, his hands and feet were shackled separately. Additionally, the police put a third set of handcuffs through the two shackles (with a total weight of about 70-80lbs). Since he was unable to stand upright, he had to crawl. Ten days later, the police removed the shackles. After he was released from the Detention Centre, he had the opportunity to leave China with the help of his brother who already lived abroad. However, since Falun Dafa was still not vindicated in China, he decided to remain in China to continue to clarify the truth about Falun Gong to the government and the people.
Ouyang Ming rejected brainwashing in the Detention Centre, his bones were broken due to a fall
From April 2000 to May 2000, Huanggang City initiated a brainwashing class. Employees of his school and the public security officers took Ouyang Ming forcibly to the Lukou Militiaman Training Centre, where he suffered severe physical punishment and was forced to listen daily to articles slandering Dafa. When he didn't cooperate, he was forced to stand in the burning sun or run for a long time. The officials used many unprincipled tricks to coerce Dafa practitioners to sign their names on The "Repentance Statement"[In this statement, the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practising Falun Gong, promises to give up Falun Gong, and to never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong]. If a practitioner didn't sign his name, six or seven strong guys would force him to do things shaming Dafa and the practice’s founder. Ouyang Ming was threatened and coerced to sign his name on the "Repentance Statement" by seven people who were employees of the "610 office" ["610" refers to a "610 office", a bureau specifically created by the Chinese government to persecute Falun Gong. It has absolute power over each level of administration in the Party, as well as over the political and judiciary branches], the Political and Judiciary Committee, the Section No.1 of the Public Security Bureau, and his school. After he refused to sign, they handcuffed him, took all his clothes off and forced him to shame Dafa and the Master. In order to avoid shaming the beloved and respected Teacher and to get away from the building, he jumped from the second floor. He was sent to the hospital. Both of his anklebones were shattered and his caudal vertebra was broken. Even then Zhou Yuhua, the head of Section No.1 of the Public Security Bureau, came to the hospital twice to coerce and threaten him to give up practicing Dafa. After leaving the hospital, he was unable to walk normally.
Kidnapped by the evil police, the outstanding teacher was fired by the school
His name was regularly found on police blacklists, because he continued to practise Falun Dafa firmly and steadfastly. He was young and good with computers. The Public Security Bureau had spent a lot of money, manpower, and equipment to track him down. One day in November 2000, a few people stopped Ouyang Ming and searched him. Then they beat him in front of a practitioner's house. He was arrested once more and was locked up for over a month because they found a few pages of truth-clarifying material about Falun Gong in his possession. One of the death row convicts was one of Li Ming's helpers. After Li Ming gave him an order, he punched Ouyang Ming's face, causing it to bleed immediately. At that time, Ouyang Ming, who was an outstanding teacher, was fired by the school, because of pressure from the "610 office".
On a hunger strike protest, Ouyang Ming was force-fed; His wife divorced him under extreme pressure
In May 2001, to ensure that other teachers were not deceived by the anti-Falun Gong propaganda and that his colleagues would have a wonderful future, he went to Huanggang Normal School to clarify the truth of Falun Dafa, without thinking about his crippled legs. While doing so, he was reported to the authorities by an informer, so he was taken again to the First Detention Centre. As soon as he arrived, the criminals beat him cruelly and inhumanly. He went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention. He was force-fed twice a day and every time he was trampled under the feet of the five or six people who held him. They used all kinds of iron tools to pry open his mouth and cruelly feed him. Half of his front teeth were broken due to their opening his mouth forcibly. He was tortured by each one of the implements of punishment that punished the criminals in the First Detention Centre and he suffered extremely. Just listening to some of these torture sessions is chilling. During this time, Ouyang Ming's wife divorced him due to extreme pressure.
Though Tremendous torture used on Ouyang Ming in the Lion Mountain Detention Centre of Huhan, he still rejected brainwashing
Ouyang Ming went on a hunger strike for seventy-eight days and he became only skin and bone. Even though he was on his last breath because of the torture, he was still illegally sentenced to one year of "re-education through forced labour" at Wuhan Shizi Shan Drug Rehabilitation Centre. He not only didn't recite the rules of the jail and say "report" but also didn't cooperate with the rogues. Therefore, he was beaten daily through the following methods: "digging the wall"(the head against the wall, between upper- and lower-body at a ninety degree angle) and "sticking the wall"(with the back leaning against the wall, a paper is held between the head and the wall, between the hand and the leg of each side of the body and between two legs; and one must not drop the paper). He was allowed to only sleep one or two hours daily, for a period of over fifteen days. One day the police played a video slandering Falun Dafa. Ouyang Ming refused to watch it. Instead, he recited Teacher's scriptures, wrote them down and handed them to other practitioners. Therefore, he was punished once more.
The guards forced him to sit on a small stool without moving for over ten hours per day for twenty days. He sat so long that pus and blood came out of his buttocks. Later on, when the prison didn't have enough work to do in the daytime, Ouyang Ming was sent to the military camp. At night, he was forced to sit on a small stool and only allowed to sleep a little. In order to force him to give up the practice of Falun Gong, the police asked many people to brainwash him. As he had a deep understanding and a wide and profound knowledge, and as he had cultivated for many years, no one could persuade him. He continued to quote from Falun Gong books, providing strong evidence and fair and sensible reasoning. He helped some practitioners who had given up cultivating in Falun Dafa under the extreme pressure to cultivate again. Some policemen also understood that Falun Dafa is good. Even the psychologist told Ouyang Ming after long discussions that he respected him. Not only that, the criminals who tortured him under the police pressure also understood the truth of Falun Dafa. Because Ouyang Ming refused the persecution without cooperating with the police, the criminals got involved too, they not only didn't complain about it but also said: "We would accept the punishment for you, Ouyang, by standing straight". It didn't matter what methods the police used to force him to give up cultivating in Dafa, their plans did not succeed. Ouyang Ming walked openly and legitimately out of the Shizishan Forced Labour Camp without reciting the jail rules and without writing the "Repentance Statement".
Kidnapped for the second time, Ouyang Ming obtained so many kinds of diseases due to undergoing extremely serious torture both mentally and physically that there was no treatment left to cure his illnesses
Ouyang Ming was often followed and disturbed by the people from the Public Security Bureau after being released from the Shizishan forced Labour Camp. In order to clarify the truth of Dafa, Ouyang Ming wrote a letter on the Internet and was subsequently abducted again and returned to the First Detention Centre. This time he was held for over a year and was tortured both physically and mentally even more cruelly than before. The mental damage this time was worse. During that year, Dafa practitioners tightened their belts so they could send him clothing and food. They sent many things to him that included clothes for a year, shoes, socks, daily life articles, soup, even money (about one or two thousand Yuan). Ouyang Ming never received any of these things. He felt it was strange that no one visited him any more and he also asked the guards about this, but they lied to him by saying that no one cared for him. He suffered loneliness and a sense of helplessness for four hundred days and nights. Finally he had a chance to ask a criminal to pass a message to a practitioner asking that some underwear be brought to him. The criminal not only didn't pass the message to the practitioner but also fooled Ouyang Ming by saying: "She said she didn't know you". His body couldn't take any more of the cruel physical and mental torture. Since May 2003, Ouyang Ming continued having fevers, coughs, and could only eat a portion of rice about the size of an egg. He was very ill. That is when the information that Ouyang Ming was being illegally sentenced to two years to "re-education through forced labour" was made known.
May 15th 2003 was visiting day (before being sentenced, people are not allowed to visit) and many practitioners and one of his relatives came to see him, but the police at the Detention Centre refused to let them in, using SARS as the excuse. Although Ouyang Ming was very sick at that time, the police still told his visitors that he was fine. In June, Ouyang Ming's physical condition was so poor that he almost died (After being set free, he told people that if he had stayed only two more days in the Detention Centre, he would have died. Zhou Yuhua, the head of Section No.1 of the Public Security Bureau had already revealed to someone that Ouyang Ming couldn't live much longer.). Under these circumstances, the police took him to Shayang Detention Centre, but they refused to accept him because he was dying and there was a big cavity in his lungs. Therefore, the police took him back to the First Detention Centre. In the meantime the policemen of the First Detention Centre began to worry that Ouyang Ming might die and they would have to take the responsibility for his death. They found Ouyang Ming's ex-wife and she took him to the Lung Disease Hospital in the city. After being examined, the diagnosis showed that his kidney function was non-existent; his liver function was seriously injured; he had heart disease, hepatitis B, a pulmonary cavity, diabetes etc. The doctor couldn't do anything for him because he couldn't take any medication (if he took any medicine, the medicine might be good for one part of his body, but would be bad for another organ). A healthy young man was wrecked like this after being illegally detained and tortured for a few years.
Coming back home for recovery, Ouyang Ming was still disturbed by evil policemen.
Four days later Ouyang Ming requested to check out of the hospital as the treatments hadn't worked. The police still came to disturb him by asking many questions. Soon after he came home, the policemen Zhou Yuhua and Chen Shuming broke into his home and continued to disturb him. Chen Shuming threatened him maliciously: “I will still take you back to the Detention Centre". So ten days later, Ouyang Ming mentioned that he wanted to stay in a place where the police couldn't come to disturb him. He said that he was illegally held for years, that every day his suffering had been terrible and that he might be tortured to death by persisting to cultivate. Therefore, Dafa practitioners rented a house for him and took care of him.
Due to extreme mental and physical exhaustion, Ouyang Ming unfortunately passed away.
During late July and early August, the policemen from The Public Security Bureau kept looking for him everywhere and spread word that they would not stop pursuing him. Due to his extreme mental and physical exhaustion, Ouyang Ming, the young and strong and outstanding teacher unfortunately passed away on August 20th 2003.
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