This archive preserves the documented media and case records concerning Li Li (李丽, Cangzhou), a Falun Gong practitioner from Cangzhou, Hebei, sentenced in 2025 to three years and ten months in prison in connection with her religious practice. It does not cover the different woman with the same written name — resident in Pingdu, Qingdao, Shandong, sentenced to three years in 2024 — whose case is documented separately.
Case chronology (as documented by the case reports)
- August 17, 2014: Li Li is among 42 Falun Gong practitioners detained together in Cangzhou — the “817” group detention.
- December 2015: After more than a year in custody, Li is sentenced to six years in prison.
- April 17, 2024: Li Li is detained on her way to work by Yunhe district domestic-security police and taken to the Cangzhou detention center; more than a dozen practitioners are detained across Yunhe and Xinhua districts.
- May 22, 2024: Reporting states Li is formally arrested; the case is sent to the Yunhe District Procuratorate and then the court, with one return for supplementary investigation.
- April 9, 2025: The Yunhe District Court tries Li’s case at the Cangzhou detention center.
- May 29, 2025: Reporting states Li has been sentenced to three years and ten months; she writes an appeal.
- July 6, 2025: Practitioner-affiliated outlet Minghui publishes the full case narrative in Chinese (Cangzhou origin, April 2024 arrest, detention-center conditions, trial, sentence, 2015 history).
- September 4, 2025: Reporting states Li is transferred to the Hebei Provincial Women’s Prison; family visits are refused.
- September 29, 2024 / updated December 6, 2025: The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong opens a case notice on the Cangzhou officials involved, with a summary matching every anchor above.
Source record
- Minghui news (Chinese edition), July 6, 2025 — “曾遭六年冤狱 河北沧州李丽又被枉判三年十个月”: full case narrative — Cangzhou Yunhe district, April 17, 2024 arrest on the way to work, Cangzhou detention center, May 22, 2024 formal arrest, supplementary-investigation return, April 9, 2025 trial at the detention center, May 29, 2025 3-year-10-month sentence with appeal, detention-center treatment and hunger strike, the 2014–2015 “817” history. Full report
- World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong — “追查河北省沧州市迫害法轮功学员李丽的责任人的通告” (PDF notice, issued September 29, 2024, updated December 6, 2025): independent corroboration on every anchor — Yunhe District Cangzhou, April 17, 2024 arrest, detention center, May 22, 2024 arrest approval, April 9, 2025 trial, May 29, 2025 3-year-10-month sentence, September 4, 2025 transfer to Hebei Provincial Women’s Prison (visits refused), 2014 “817” event with 6-year sentence. Notice (PDF)
- Prisoners of Conscience database (human-rights monitoring organization) — individual record for 李丽 / Li Li: female; Cangzhou City, Hebei; Falun Gong practitioner; last taken 2024-04-17; charge unknown; sentenced 3 years 10 months; term to 2028-02-16; Cangzhou detention center; prior history: 2014-08-17 “817” group event (42 detained), sentenced 6 years in December 2015; 2024-04-17 arrest by Yunhe and Xinhua police, detention center, criminal detention, arrest, and indictment, sentence learned July 2025. Public search (query name=李丽)
- 维权网 / Chinese-language rights monitoring network — Issue 131 monthly report, August 31, 2026: “Li Li” (Hebei) appears in the roster series.
Evidentiary limitations
- The specific criminal charge was not disclosed in any source reviewed.
- The sentence-report date differs: the case database records the sentence as learned in July 2025; both media records date the verdict to about May 29, 2025. The verdict date follows the media records.
- The 2014 “817” group-detention history and 2015 six-year sentence, the April 2024 arrest narrative, the detention-center treatment details, the trial and sentence reporting, and the September 2025 prison transfer and visit refusals all come from practitioner-affiliated reporting, the case database, and the investigation organization’s notice, and are presented as reported, not as independently verified findings.
- No official or state-media coverage of the case was found; no information post-dating the December 2025 notice exists about custody, transfer, or release.
- The Shandong (Pingdu/Qingdao) 李丽 case facts belong to a different person and are not part of this archive.
See also
The profile page for Li Li (李丽, Cangzhou) gathers her biography, the case narrative, and current status in full.