Hunan dissident Ou Biaofeng, who was placed under administrative detention, has been charged with “subversion of state power” instead of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”. The public security authorities also found several copies of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily in his car, and believe he will be charged with this crime.
Ou Biao Feng, who was placed under administrative detention earlier this month, was scheduled to regain his freedom last Saturday (19). His wife, Wei Huanhuan, was surprised that her husband was suddenly assigned to residential surveillance.
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. This time because of the administrative detention in front of the front to do padding, thought this will be the end, did not expect to come to the most severe punishment. I don’t know if he will be subjected to torture and abuse if he is under residential surveillance. I don’t know how he will be sentenced in the future, I’m afraid it will take too long, and I’m also worried about implicating other friends. Our children are also very young, one is two years old, one is more than three years old, there will certainly be this worry.”
On the eve of the expiration of Ou Biaofeng’s detention, more than a dozen public security officers searched his home and verbally informed him that Ou Biaofeng had been “upgraded” from administrative detention to “designated residential surveillance” and that the charge had changed from provocation to subversion of state power.
Wei Huanhuan: “They took some of Ou Biaofeng’s things from his home, including computers, cell phones, CDs, calligraphy and paintings. The state security told me that he was now designated for residential surveillance because he was suspected of subverting state power. I was given some warnings, ‘Don’t give interviews, you know you can’t hire a lawyer for this crime, don’t release information to the public, don’t do anything, otherwise it’s not good for your family and Ou Biao Feng.’ “
Public Security found several newspapers from Hong Kong during the operation, which are likely to be incriminating evidence against Ou Biao Feng.
Wei Huanhuan: “The Apple Daily was found from the trunk of his car, a few copies from August 11 to 14, with the main content on it about Lai Chi Ying . I vaguely heard him say that he had asked a friend to bring it over from Hong Kong. Maybe they (public security) also do not know, they were mainly looking for his laptop, because the search warrant is written on his residence, and then the vehicle also turned over, and found this thing.”
On Aug. 10, after Next Media’s headquarters building was searched, Ou asked a friend to mail several copies of Apple Daily to Zhuzhou, Hunan province, after which he tweeted a message of solidarity with Next Media founder Lai Chi-ying and showed a photo of himself holding the front page of Apple Daily. The source, who requested anonymity, believes that O’Brien’s alleged incitement is directly related to these actions.
The source said, “There must be some degree of connection between subversion and this. Basically, it’s the same crime as subversion under Hong Kong’s national security law. Now the situation in Hong Kong you also know. The new national security law, Huang Zhifeng and Lai Zhiying and other people’s previous behavior, in Hong Kong before the rule of law, are normal legal and reasonable behavior, but now they are given in prison. If you take it to the country, that’s basically what it means. I wonder if they will be branded as counter-revolutionaries?”
The family’s lawyers have asked for a meeting with the family.
Lawyers commissioned by the family were denied access to Ou Biaofeng earlier. No one knows where Ou Biao Feng is currently located.
The most frightening thing about having residential surveillance is that you don’t know where he’s being held,” the source said. This is a place outside the law. The most important thing is that you don’t know where he is. You don’t know what’s going on. “
Ou Biao Feng has long been concerned about social injustice, and has also publicly supported the anti-Send China movement in Hong Kong. Hunan “ink throwing girl” Dong Yaoqiong recently uploaded a short video in the social media, and she has close ties with the Ou Biao Feng was subsequently taken away from the Ningxiang apartment by the public security.
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