Li Dongzhi (李冬枝) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Changde City, Hunan Province. Monitoring records report that she was detained in November 2023 and sentenced in November 2025 to four years in prison.
2023 detention
The CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database reports that on November 30, 2023, public-security and domestic-security personnel in Changde detained dozens of Falun Gong practitioners, including Li. The database states that she was held at the Changde City Detention Center, also identified as Baiheshan Detention Center.
2025 sentence
According to the same database, the Taoyuan County Court sentenced Li on November 12, 2025 to four years in prison and fined her 6,000 yuan. The formal criminal charge is listed as unknown.
Status and evidence limits
The database gives November 29, 2027 as the term endpoint. Rights Defense Network Issue 131 lists 李冬枝 among reported current prisoners in its four-year-sentence group as of August 31, 2026. No public court judgment, serving prison, or second independent case report was located. No post-August-2026 status is inferred.
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