Li Xiuqin （李秀芹） is a Falun Gong practitioner from Dalian, Liaoning Province, who was detained by railway police on June 11, 2025, and sentenced to three years and two months in prison. Her case records state that the arrest followed years of practicing Falun Gong, which she took up in 1998, and that she was prosecuted by the Ganjingzi District Procuratorate and tried by the Ganjingzi District Court, where she received the sentence plus a 20,000-yuan fine on November 13, 2025. The formal charge is not specified in the available records. Her family filed an appeal, the outcome of which is not known.
Background
Born in 1959, Li Xiuqin is a resident of Dalian. According to case reporting, she suffered from chronic bronchitis, lumbar disc problems, and emphysema before she began practicing Falun Gong in 1998.
Detention and prosecution
On the afternoon of June 11, 2025, Li was stopped and searched by plainclothes police from the Dalian North Station police station at the Qianmu Village railway crossing in Ganjingzi District; officers found Falun Gong informational materials in her bag. She was taken to the Dalian North Station police station and, that night, transferred to the Dalian City Detention Center (Yaojia), where she was held. Her home was searched twice (the night of June 11 and again on June 20). The reporting states that her family’s written requests to meet investigators and to have the case dropped went unanswered.
The Dalian Railway Transport Procuratorate approved her arrest — on July 18 according to the case report, or July 28 according to the prisoner database record; the two sources differ on this date — and the case was transferred to the Ganjingzi District Procuratorate for prosecution. On November 13, 2025, the Ganjingzi District Court held a trial (presiding judge Lu Dandan) with family members present as defense; the court imposed three years and two months’ imprisonment plus a 20,000-yuan fine. The family received the written verdict on November 27 and appealed. Her recorded term ends August 10, 2028.
Attribution note
All facts of custody, prosecution, and sentencing above come from rights-monitoring sources (a Falun Gong-affiliated outlet’s case report and a political-prisoner database record). No court judgment or official statement has been independently located. Characterizations of the legal process in those sources (such as claims of illegality) are the sources’ claims, not independently verified findings.
Further records: media profile and source archive for Li Xiuqin （李秀芹）.