Profile: Li Yueying / 李月英
This archive preserves the documented media and case record for Li Yueying (李月英), a Falun Gong practitioner from Chenxi County, Huaihua City, Hunan, born in 1940, currently serving a six-month prison sentence in the Hunan Provincial Women’s Prison.
Case chronology (as documented by the case archive)
- August 1995: Begins practicing Falun Gong, according to the case record.
- November 1999: Detained at Tiananmen Square while appealing the ban; held 50 days in Chenxi County after being sent back.
- September 2000: Sent to a labor camp for one year (Zhuzhou Baimalong).
- December 2001: Detained again; after about fifteen months in custody, sentenced to three years; transferred to Changsha Women’s Prison. The case-database record also notes a three-year sentence in 2012 and two periods of re-education through labor.
- First half of 2020: Seized by Chenxi County police for posting Falun Gong stickers; case built by police and procuratorate and transferred to the Yuanling County People’s Procuratorate.
- About March 2022: Yuanling procuratorate staff and local police come to her home with an indictment and press her to go to court; she refuses.
- 2023: Yuanling County People’s Court sentences her to six months in prison (per the case-database record); she is not immediately taken into custody.
- November–December 2025: Repeated home visits, two forced medical examinations, and pressure to sign acceptance of the six-month term; the December 2025 case report describes a December 19 forced hospital examination in Huaihua.
- July 2026: Escorted by court bailiffs to the Hunan Provincial Women’s Prison (Changsha) to serve the term, at age 86; recorded term to January 2027.
Source record
- Human-rights case database — individual record for 李月英 / “Li Yueying”. Born 1940; female; 2026-07 taken to serve; charge unknown; six-month sentence; release date 2027-01; held at 湖南省女子监狱 (Hunan Provincial Women’s Prison); case summary entered September 18, 2026. Accessed via the database’s public search; exactly one record returned, with zero-collision on variant-name and English-column checks.
- Minghui — “曾遭四年囹圄迫害 湖南李月英又遭司法构陷” (December 27, 2025). Detailed case report covering the 2020 sticker incident and Chenxi police detention, the transfer of the case to the Yuanling procuratorate and court, the November–December 2025 forced medical examinations and pressure to sign the six-month sentencing papers, and her earlier detention history (1999 Beijing appeal, 2000 labor camp, 2001–2004 imprisonment). (Practitioner-community news; attribute claims.) Read the report
Evidentiary limitations
- The exact sentencing date is not independently confirmed: the case-database record dates the six-month sentence to 2023, while the December 2025 Minghui report describes renewed enforcement pressure that same year, implying the sentence predated that pressure.
- The 2012 three-year sentence mentioned in the case-database bio is not detailed in the 2025 Minghui report; no corroborating source was located.
- The formal criminal charge is recorded as unknown.
- Transfer mechanics (which court ordered the July 2026 escort) are not specified beyond “court bailiffs.”
- No PRC state-media or court-document coverage of this case was located.
- Characterizations of the proceedings as unlawful reflect the case record’s account and are presented as attributed claims, not independently verified findings.
Profile: Li Yueying / 李月英