Li Guizhen (李桂珍) is a retired power-company worker from Jinan City, Shandong Province, China, born in 1951, and a Falun Gong practitioner. She was 75 years old at the time of her 2026 sentencing.
In March 2010, Li Guizhen was sentenced to four and a half years in prison by the Huaiyin District court in Jinan; she served that sentence at the Shandong Provincial Women’s Prison.
On September 29, 2025, Li Guizhen was detained along with more than forty other Jinan practitioners by officers of the Changqing District public security bureau in a coordinated early-morning operation (the “9·29” case). At least nineteen practitioners were criminally detained; she was among those held.
In early April 2026, the Changqing District Court tried Li Guizhen. In May 2026, the court notified her family that she had been sentenced to three years in prison; the formal charge is not publicly documented. She was transferred to the Shandong Provincial Women’s Prison to serve the sentence. Her listed release date is September 28, 2028.
Status: Currently imprisoned (Shandong Provincial Women’s Prison; sentence to September 28, 2028; listed in custody in the August 31, 2026 prisoner roster).