Li Guoyuan (李国媛) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Maoming City, Guangdong Province. Falun Gong-affiliated reporting states that she was arrested in 2023 and sentenced on August 29, 2025 to four years in prison.
2023 arrest and prosecution
Minghui reports that Li was arrested at her home after a May 2023 police operation involving local Falun Gong practitioners. She was held at the Maoming City First Detention Center. The outlet reports that formal arrest warrants for Li and two co-defendants were approved on June 17, 2023 and that the Maonan District Procuratorate indicted them on September 13, 2023.
Trial, sentence and appeal
According to Minghui, the Maonan District Court tried the case on June 11, 2025. On August 29, 2025, Li was sentenced to four years in prison. The report states that she appealed. Allegations that her family was pressured not to hire a lawyer remain attributed to Minghui and have not been independently verified.
Status and evidence limits
Rights Defense Network Issue 131 lists 李国媛 among reported current prisoners in its four-year-sentence group as of August 31, 2026. The English edition renders her name “Li Guoyuan,” while the Chinese edition gives 李国媛; both are retained here. No current prison facility, appeal outcome, exact sentence-end date, official judgment or PRC government account was located.
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