Profile: Li Zhongyuan (李忠元)
This archive preserves the documented media and case record for Li Zhongyuan (李忠元), a Falun Gong practitioner from Suiling County, Heilongjiang, currently serving a five-year prison sentence in Bei’an Prison.
Case chronology (as documented by the case archive)
- May 10, 2025 (early morning): Li Zhongyuan, Wang Yu, Xiu Zhongchen, Zhao Shuquan, and Jiang Ming are seized in a coordinated operation directed by the Heilongjiang provincial public-security apparatus, with Suihua, Hailun, and Suiling police participating; the stated trigger was the distribution of Falun Gong materials in the Hailun area. All five are taken to the Hailun City detention center. Zhao Shuquan is later released on bail for medical reasons.
- May–October 2025: Criminal detention, arrest approval, and prosecution follow, per the case accounts.
- October 16, 2025: The Hailun City People’s Court sentences the five: Li Zhongyuan to five years plus a 10,000-yuan fine; Wang Yu to four years six months plus 10,000 yuan; Xiu Zhongchen and Zhao Shuquan to two years six months each, suspended for four years, plus 10,000-yuan fines; Jiang Ming to two years, suspended for three years, plus a 10,000-yuan fine.
- Late 2025: Li Zhongyuan and Wang Yu are transferred to Bei’an Prison; the three suspended-sentence defendants are required to write renunciation statements, report via daily facial-recognition check-ins, and appear monthly at the local judicial office.
- May 9, 2030: Recorded end of Li Zhongyuan’s term (CHRD record).
Source record
- CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database — individual record for 李忠元 / “Li Zhongyuan”: male; last detained 2025-05-10; charge unknown; five-year sentence; release date 2030-05-09; held at 黑龙江省北安监狱 (Bei’an Prison); case summary entered January 12, 2026. Accessed via the database’s public search (query: name=李忠元; exactly one record returned; variant-name and English-column checks returned zero additional records).
- Minghui (明慧网) — “黑龙江省绥棱县五名法轮功学员被非法判刑” (December 17, 2025): case report covering the May 10, 2025 group arrest of Li Zhongyuan, Wang Yu, Xiu Zhongchen, Zhao Shuquan, and Jiang Ming, the October 16, 2025 sentences by the Hailun court (Li: five years, 10,000-yuan fine), and the transfer of Li and Wang to Bei’an Prison.
- World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (追查国际) — notice dated January 13, 2026: independent monitoring-organization record of the same case — the May 10, 2025 arrests, the October 16 sentences (Li Zhongyuan five years; Wang Yu four years six months; the other three suspended), the 10,000-yuan fines, and the Bei’an Prison placement of Li and Wang; the notice also names the officials and units it holds responsible.
Evidentiary limitations
- The formal criminal charge is recorded as unknown; the sentencing court’s written verdict is not publicly available.
- The three sources are mutually consistent on all identity and case anchors (name, locality, arrest date, co-arrestees, sentencing court and date, sentence length, fine, prison).
- No PRC state-media or court-document coverage of this individual case was located.
- Characterizations of the arrest and sentencing as unlawful reflect the case sources’ accounts and are presented as attributed claims, not independently verified findings.
Profile: Li Zhongyuan (李忠元)