Li Qiaochu

Compiles and circulates employment and housing information for migrant workers displaced in Beijing.[3]

Collected cases and published accounts online.[8]

Helped coordinate support for sanitation workers, pregnant women and domestic-violence survivors.[8]

Li was taken from a Beijing residence and placed under RSDL; she later published an account of the detention.[1]

Li returned to her parents’ home after her first secret detention. Her later account describes comparing their experiences during the period without contact.[5]

China Change published the translation; its byline is dated January 11.

The account describes detention from February 16 to June 19, 2020, including continuous lighting, prolonged enforced sitting and questioning. The translation appeared before her renewed detention in February 2021. The period described, the translation’s publication and the later prosecution are distinct; publication does not mark a new detention episode.[5]

Front Line Defenders records her disappearance from contact and transfer to Linyi after she publicly described alleged abuse of Xu Zhiyong.[3]

Front Line Defenders records a request for access and advice that Li is in quarantine at a local hospital.[3]

Front Line Defenders records prosecutorial approval of formal arrest on an inciting-subversion accusation.[3]

Linyi prosecutors confirm receipt of the case from police for prosecutorial review.[3]

Linyi prosecutors return the case to police for supplementary investigation.[3]

Front Line Defenders reports an indictment for inciting subversion by Linyi prosecutors.[3]

A newly retained lawyer meets Li in Linyi and requests regular, adequate medical care.[3]

A closed hearing begins at Linyi Intermediate Court; Front Line Defenders reports objections concerning security checks, evidence and recusal, followed by suspension of proceedings.

Front Line Defenders records defense objections involving evidence, recusal and representation, followed by another hearing on December 19. The accusation concerned assistance with Xu Zhiyong’s blog; her wider mutual-aid and gender advocacy should not automatically be treated as alleged offenses. Sources differ by a day on the February 2024 sentence, so the profile retains month-level precision.[3][1]

Front Line Defenders records a hearing at the Economic and Technological Development District Court in Linyi without a verdict that day; her father and one lawyer are denied access.[3]

Amnesty gives February 5 and Front Line Defenders February 4; both record three years and eight months and two years’ deprivation of political rights.[1][3]

Front Line Defenders’ follow-up records confirmation of the judgment and sentence on appeal.[3]

Front Line Defenders records Li’s return from Linyi to her Beijing home after completing three years and eight months.[3]

Li published Waiting for a Letter, describing her July letter, revision and attempts to resolve its withholding.

She wrote that a letter sent to Lunan Prison in July was returned for amendment and still not delivered after resubmission, leading to information-disclosure, procuratorial-supervision and administrative-review applications. An October 16 follow-up reported receipt of a letter from Xu. That development does not establish delivery of the previously withheld letter or the removal of all correspondence restrictions.[6][7]

Safeguard Defenders reports receipt of Xu’s letter confirming delivery of two September letters, but not the July letter.[7]