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This archive preserves dated reporting on the case of Li Yixing (李一星), a Falun Gong practitioner from Zhengzhou, Henan Province, sentenced to five years and six months in September 2023.
November 14, 2023 — Minghui
The report identifies Li Yixing, then 42, and Li Hongwei as receiving five-year-six-month sentences and 50,000-yuan fines in a ten-person Zhengzhou case. It reports their November 1, 2021 arrest by Jinshui District police, a July 19, 2023 hearing at Xinzheng Court that family members were not permitted to attend, and verdicts announced September 27, 2023. Detention-chain details in the article concerning Li Hongwei are not attributed here to Li Yixing.
August 31, 2026 — Rights Defense Network
Issue 131 lists 李一星 among in-custody political and conscience prisoners sentenced to five years and six months and in its name index, consistent with the reported 2023 sentence.
Source limitations
The 2021–2023 case narrative is a single-source-line account from a Falun Gong-affiliated outlet. The Rights Defense Network roster independently supports the name, sentence-length grouping, and custody listing date, but not the detailed procedural narrative. No official court judgment, current detention facility, or exact sentence-end date was located.