This is the media archive for Li Yanping (李艳萍).
This archive collects the documented media and monitoring-organization record on Li Yanping, a member of the Baode House Church in Xinzhou, Shanxi, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for organizing others to illegally cross the national border.
Case chronology
- March 15, 2021: Li Yanping was detained together with Xinzhou house-church pastor Du Liangming (杜亮明), according to ChinaAid and Dui Hua.
- 2022: Both were tried and convicted. Li received seven years and Du five years. Dui Hua states that the specific acts underlying the convictions were not disclosed.
- July 3, 2024: ChinaAid reported Li, then 61, was held at Shanxi Women’s Prison with an expected release date of March 14, 2028 and published her husband’s account of her condition in detention.
- 2024: Dui Hua’s Prisoner Updates 2024 #6 corroborated her Chinese name, church membership, sentence, detention date, prison, and co-defendant.
Source records
ChinaAid, July 3, 2024 — reports the detention, charge, sentence, prison, expected term end, and husband Zhao Chundan’s account of her health and prison conditions. Family statements remain attributed.
The Dui Hua Foundation, Prisoner Updates 2024 #6 — independent corroboration of the name 李艳萍, age, church membership, seven-year sentence, detention date, trial year, prison, and co-defendant Du Liangming.
Source limitations
No official court judgment or state-media report on the case was located in the prepared evidence packet. The specific conduct underlying the border-crossing conviction remains unknown. The exact trial court and conviction date in 2022 were not reported. Health and prison-condition details come from Li’s husband via ChinaAid and are not independently verified.