In August 2021 Li’s attorney charged that the prison authorities had suspended her access to her medication, which she must take. As a result, she suffered from auditory hallucinations, impaired consciousness, and other symptoms. Her family applied for bail but this was rejected.
The 31-year-old Li was born in Beijing in 1991. She holds a master’s degree in public administration from York University in England. She is a former research assistant of the School of Labor and Human Resources of Tsinghua University
Previously, Li alleged that Xu was being mistreated in prison, ChinaAid reports.
In February 2021, after seeing Xu and his lawyer, Li took to Twitter to charge that Xu was facing mistreatment in prison. She charged that he was “severely tortured” at the end of April 2020 after he was transferred. She said on Twitter that in May 2020, for more than a week, “Xu was tied to an iron chair for more than ten hours a day, his limbs immobilized, and he struggled even to breathe.”
“He was limited to drinking water during the same period and was only provided one small, steamed bun for each meal,” she said. “He was hungry and thirsty every day.”
When he was going in and out of his cell, he had to wear both a black hood and a heavy motorcycle helmet, she said.
As a result of her Twitter post, she was asked to meet with Beijing police. She was criminally detained on suspicion of subversion of state power. On March 15, 2021 she was formally arrested on the same charge by the Procuratorate of Linyi City.
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