Li Qun (李群), also known as Li Qin (李琴), is a resident of Yanshan county in the Wenshan Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture, Yunnan province, and a former employee of the county telecom bureau. She practices Falun Gong.
The latest case
In late 2021, domestic-security police in Wenshan city took her into custody. In January 2023 it was learned that she had been sentenced to six years in prison; the term was reported as ending in December 2027. The specific charge against her and the facility where she is being held were not reported.
Prior sentences
This was her fourth prison sentence. In 2004 she was sentenced to four years and, after her release on May 22, 2008, was dismissed from her job. In April 2009 she was sentenced to five years, which she served in the Yunnan No. 2 Women’s Prison. Detained again in 2017, she was sentenced to four years around the 2018 New Year. Before the latest six-year sentence, she had spent a total of thirteen years in prison.
A note on a different person with the same name
A different person named 李群 — a male member of the Century New City Church in Kunming, Yunnan, detained in April 2026 in connection with that congregation’s case and not yet sentenced — is a separate individual. He is not connected to the Wenshan case described on this page.
Current status
According to the January 2023 case report, Li Qun was serving a six-year sentence reported as ending in December 2027. No independently verified information beyond that report is available regarding her custody, transfer, or release. Her present-day status is not asserted here.
Sources
- Minghui news (Chinese edition), January 24, 2023 — “被冤狱迫害十三年 云南文山州李群再被枉判六年”: the case report identifies Li Qun (李群, also given as 李琴), a Yanshan county telecom-bureau employee and Falun Gong practitioner, taken into custody by Wenshan city domestic-security police in late 2021 and sentenced to six years, learned of in January 2023. It recounts her three earlier sentences: four years in 2004 (released May 22, 2008), five years in 2009 (Yunnan No. 2 Women’s Prison), and four years around the 2018 New Year — thirteen years in total before the latest term. Full report (the same report in Traditional Chinese is available here)
- Minghui (English edition), January 30, 2023 — “Yunnan Woman Given Fourth Prison Term for Practicing Falun Gong”: English rendering of the same report. Note: the English version describes her former employer as the county “Power Bureau” while the Chinese original says 电信局 (telecom bureau); the Chinese original is followed here. Full report
Where the report’s account is the only source, it is presented as reported.
Further reading
The full documented case record for Li Qun is preserved in a companion media archive, which gathers the case chronology, cited sources, and evidentiary limitations in one place.