Ou Biaofeng, a prominent Chinese dissident, was recently removed from his residence by the National Security Bureau. His wife tweeted on December 4 that she had received a phone call from the Zhuzhou City Bureau informing her that “Ou Biaofeng was sentenced to 15 days of administrative punishment for provoking trouble”.
According to another tweet by Ou’s wife, Wei Huanhuan, earlier Friday, Ou was summoned to his home in Ningxiang, Hunan province, at 10:30 a.m. on December 3 by four Zhuzhou state guards in response to a tweet for help from the ink-splashing girl Dong Yaoqiong. Afterwards, the guards took Ou Biaofeng to the Zhuzhou Lusong Public Security Bureau. She tweeted that her husband had been taken to the bureau “for almost 24 hours and he hasn’t come out.
According to the rights website Minsheng Watch, Ou Biaofeng was allowed to speak with his wife when he was taken away from the police station, saying that he had been detained for online comments, which are thought to be related to the recent video Ou Biaofeng posted of Dong Yaoqiong, the woman who splashed ink on him.
Lan Ning, a research and advocacy consultant for the Washington-based NGO China Human Rights Defenders, told the Hong Kong English-language online media Hong Kong Free Press that “Ou Biaofeng was the first to tweet about Dong Yaoqiong’s “ink splash” video. SOS video. He is now in detention, apparently because the authorities are trying to silence him and punish him for revealing Dong Yaoqiong’s situation.
On November 30, Dong Yaoqiong, “the woman who splashed ink,” tweeted her latest video complaining about being under full surveillance after being “mentally ill,” and was subsequently visited by local state security. She was then visited by local national security guards, and all three of Dong Yaoqiong’s tweets disappeared. She has lost contact with the outside world, as well as with her father, who is believed to be under the control of the authorities.
After splashing ink on a portrait of Xi Jinping in Shanghai in July 2018, Dong was taken away by public security for “assaulting a national leader,” and was sent to a mental hospital twice. Dong Yaoqiong was then twice sent to a mental hospital and has only been discharged in May of this year. Dong Yaoqiong was thus named “the woman who splashed ink”.
During Dong Yaoqiong’s mental illness, Ou Biaofeng kept in touch with Dong’s father and released relevant information to the public in a timely manner.
In order to strengthen her control, Dong Yaoqiong was assigned to work in a government department after she was discharged from the hospital, and all of her interactions with others were closely monitored. Under prolonged closed surveillance, Dong Yaoqiong was forced to speak out and expressed her readiness to bear the brunt of the persecution and continued confinement in a mental hospital.
Human rights organizations have criticized the Chinese authorities for using psychiatric hospital confinement as a means to “legally” persecute and imprison dissidents and human rights defenders. The Communist Party’s psychiatric hospitals are essentially openly drugged and killed with no accountability for the horrific and vicious concentration camps.
Minsheng Watch reports that after Ou Biaofeng was taken away, several friends who were concerned about solidarity were warned by the police not to participate in solidarity and not to publish news.
After the news of Ou’s 15-day detention broke, some friends said they would accompany their families to the detention center to deposit money and send clothes, but they were immediately prevented from doing so by phone calls from the National Security Guard, who asked them not to participate, but the police’s unreasonable request was rejected.
According to Wei Huanhuan’s latest tweets on December 5, accompanied by netizen “Rosemary” and Zhuzhou citizen Wang Zhihua, the three went to the Zhuzhou City Detention Center. However, except for a guard on duty, empty, they can not store anything, can not enter the gate, can only return to no avail.
According to Minsheng.com, about 10 years ago in the microblogging era, Ou Biaofeng has been active online and offline, actively participating in civic activities, paying long-term attention to social livelihood, verifying and publishing human rights news, assisting lawyers in handling cases, showing solidarity with arrested people, helping and contacting families, and other related public welfare work. He is an excellent civil rights practitioner, and one of the few long-standing public service volunteers and citizen journalists in China. In June 2014, Ou was detained for five days by the Shaoyang police for taking a Hong Kong cable news reporter to the cemetery of Li Wangyang in Shaoyang, Hunan Province to film and interview. In recent years, Ou Biaofeng has turned a relatively low profile.
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