Li Yi (李艺) is listed by the Rights Defense Network (维权网), an independent Chinese-language monitoring organization, as a political or conscience prisoner detained without trial in Shanghai.
In the organization’s monthly custody report dated August 31, 2026, 李艺 appears in the Shanghai group of eight people under the section for detainees held without a reported sentence (羁押未判), alongside Lü Guomei, Xu Wei, Li Ping, Chen Pinlin, Mao Hengfeng, Hua Xiuzhen, and Sun Hongqin.
No sentence length, charge, arrest date, detention facility, age, gender, or occupation is given for Li Yi in the report. No additional person-specific reporting was located in the prepared evidence packet.
The common romanization “Li Yi” is shared by many unrelated people. This profile documents only the 李艺 in the August 31, 2026 Shanghai custody listing and should not be merged with other people who share the romanization.
Source: Rights Defense Network / 维权网, Issue 131, August 31, 2026.