This archive accompanies the Person Profile of Li Cunguo (李存国).
This archive preserves the documented media and organizational record of the case of Li Cunguo (李存国), a retired worker from Tai’an, Shandong, sentenced to five years and six months in prison for his Falun Gong practice.
Record 1 — CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database entry (entered 2023-09-10). Records Li Cunguo (LI CUNGUO), male, born 1959, of Tai’an; detained September 13, 2022; sentenced to 5 years 6 months with a 15,000-yuan fine (tried March 23, 2023 by the Taishan District Court); held at Shandong Provincial Prison from early June 2023; release March 12, 2028. Charge listed as unknown. Bio notes his wife Xie Qingling was sentenced to 7 years with a 20,000-yuan fine after a video hearing by the Taishan District Court on July 15, 2021.
Record 2 — Minghui, “妻子被枉判七年入狱 山东李存国被冤判五年半” (August 7, 2023). Reports: Li Cunguo, then 64, tried March 23, 2023 by the Taishan District Court and sentenced to five and a half years with a 15,000-yuan fine; transferred to Shandong Provincial Prison in early June 2023. Recounts the case history: wife Xie Qingling detained November 2020 and sentenced to seven years in December 2021; Li detained at home on the evening of November 24, 2020 and held in Xintai, released on bail after a health episode, left home in June 2021 while wanted, re-detained September 13, 2022, and indicted at year-end. An English version is published at en.minghui.org.
Record 3 — World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, investigation notice on the Tai’an case (May 23, 2021; PDF). Names Li Cunguo (male, 61) among the practitioners detained on November 24–25, 2020 by the Taishan District police; confirms his formal arrest along with Xie Qingling and others by December 31, 2020.
Record 4 — Wife’s published case record (FreeChina.live, Xie Qingling Person profile and Media archive, WP 18691/18692). Independently names Li Cunguo (李存国) as Xie Qingling’s husband, a retired worker detained at home on November 24, 2020 — consistent with this record.