Canonical ID: DISS-OUYANG-YI
Profile status: Source-supported canonical profile; research enrichment remains in progress.
Overview
Ouyang Yi (欧阳懿) is a Sichuan teacher, cyberdissident and China Democracy Party member whose case became part of the documented history of online political expression and peaceful democratic organizing in mainland China.
Custody and sentence
Authoritative Free China research records his arrest on December 4, 2002 and a two-year sentence imposed on March 16, 2004. Independent reporting in the evidence archive documents his release at the end of the sentence in December 2004 and subsequent restrictions, including a publication ban and police supervision.
Democracy and expression activity
Contemporaneous and near-contemporaneous reporting links Ouyang Yi to peaceful political expression, an open appeal before the 16th Party Congress, and China Democracy Party activity. Exact organizational titles remain source-bounded and are not inferred beyond the available record.
Evidence status
The dedicated Ouyang Yi Global Media Archive preserves independent case chronology and release reporting. Underlying court originals and additional primary legal records remain enrichment targets.
This canonical profile distinguishes verified facts from unresolved details and does not infer later custody or current status without evidence.