Li Wen / 李文 — Media Profile & Archive
This archive preserves the documented media and case record for Li Wen (李文), a Falun Gong practitioner from Liaoyuan, Jilin, currently serving a four-year prison sentence.
Read the full profile of Li Wen / 李文.
Case chronology (as documented)
- May 12, 2008: Liaoyuan police besiege the home of Li Wen and his wife Li Yuqiu — power cut, building sealed, month-long stakeout — then search the home and seize cash, computers, printers, and Falun Gong materials (attributed practitioner-community account).
- March 6, 2009: The couple are seized in Taiyuan, Shanxi, by Liaoyuan and Taiyuan police; taken back to Liaoyuan.
- June 5, 2009: Secret trial in the Liaoyuan City Detention Center.
- June 24, 2009: Longshan District Court sentences Li Wen and Li Yuqiu to four years each.
- September 15/17, 2009: Li Yuqiu sent to Jilin Provincial Women’s Prison; Li Wen sent to Siping (Shiling) Prison.
- 2012: Practitioner archives describe violent “transformation” campaigns at Siping Prison; Li Wen reported subjected to electric-shock torture (attributed account, not independently verified).
- September 19, 2024: Re-arrested by Liaoyuan police; home searched; detained.
- Early March 2025: News emerges that the Liaoyuan court sentenced Li Wen to four years (charge not publicly recorded).
- February 25, 2025: Transferred to Jilin Province No. 2 Prison (吉林市） to serve the sentence.
- September 18, 2028: Term expected to end.
Source record
- CHRD political-prisoner database (tenchu.org) — individual record for 李文 / “Li Wen”: male; Liaoyuan (Jilin); former Liaoyuan People’s Bank of China employee; Falun Gong practitioner; repeatedly arrested and tortured in the past; taken 2024-09-19 by Liaoyuan police, home searched, detained; sentenced 4 years by Liaoyuan court (charge unknown); term to 2028-09-18; transferred 2025-02-25 to Jilin Province No. 2 Prison (Jilin City); case summary entered 2025-04-08. Queried live 2026-10-10: exact-ZH 李文 matches exactly 1 record; variant queries name=李雯 and name=李纹 → 0 records; foreign_name=LI WEN → 3 rows fenced as distinct persons （李文波 Yunnan, male 1966; 李文华 Jilin City, female 1964 — do-not-merge).
- Minghui (明慧网), March 14, 2025 — 吉林省辽源市李文被枉判四年入狱 — practitioner-community case report: 李文先生， Liaoyuan; former Liaoyuan PBC employee; arrested 2024-09-19; sentenced 4 years by the Liaoyuan court (news emerged early March 2025); transferred to Jilin No. 2 Prison February 25, 2025; documents the 2008–2009 prior case (siege May 12, 2008; seizure in Taiyuan March 6, 2009; 4-year sentence June 24, 2009 with wife Li Yuqiu; Siping Prison torture accounts 2012); includes Jilin No. 2 Prison contact numbers. Opened and read October 10, 2026. https://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2025/3/14/%E5%90%89%E6%9E%97%E7%9C%81%E8%BE%BD%E6%BA%90%E5%B8%82%E6%9D%8E%E6%96%87%E8%A2%AB%E6%9E%89%E5%88%A4%E5%9B%9B%E5%B9%B4%E5%85%A5%E7%8B%B1-491633.html
Evidentiary limitations
The criminal charge for the 2024 sentence is not publicly recorded. The pre-2024 history (2008–2012 detentions, the 2009 sentence, and the Siping Prison abuse accounts) rests entirely on the practitioner-community case archive and is presented as attributed narrative, not independently verified findings. No PRC court verdict or state-media coverage of the case was located, and no independent corroborating coverage outside the practitioner archive was found in targeted web searches (2026-10-10). Do-not-merge: 李文波 (Li Wenbo, Yunnan, male, born 1966) and 李文华 (Li Wenhua, Jilin City, female, born 1964) are different persons with different sex/locality/case anchors; the 2009 co-defendant and wife 李玉秋 (Li Yuqiu) is a distinct person; Li Wenliang (李文亮， Wuhan doctor) and Li Wenming (李文明， Shenzhen labor-rights activist) are unrelated.