Li Yufang (李玉芳) — Longkou Falun Gong Practitioner Sentenced to Two and a Half Years

Li Yufang (李玉芳), a woman in her seventies from Longkou City, Shandong Province, is a Falun Gong practitioner sentenced to two years and six months in prison with a 10,000-yuan fine in March 2026.

According to Minghui, Li was arrested on July 17, 2025 at the Xufudawang Community Fair in Longkou together with Cui Xiuju and Luan Yanping. The outlet reports that officers searched their homes and that Li was taken to Yantai City Detention Center. These arrest and search details are source-attributed and have not been independently verified.

Minghui reports that formal arrest warrants were issued on August 8, 2025 and that the case moved through the Longkou City Procuratorate to the Longkou City Court. The three women were tried on January 23, 2026. The outlet describes restrictions placed on family defenders and other procedural disputes at the hearing; those accounts remain attributed to the source.

On March 13, 2026, according to the same reporting, Li was sentenced to two years and six months and fined 10,000 yuan. She appealed. No published outcome of the appeal was located in the prepared evidence packet, and her current custody location is not independently established.

The formal criminal charge is not stated verbatim in the sources used here and is not inferred.

Sources: Minghui, March 31, 2026; Minghui, January 31, 2026; WOIPFG investigation notice, February 20, 2026.

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