# Li Bifeng

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**Li Bifeng** (born 1964 in [Mianyang](/source/Mianyang),[1][2] [Sichuan](/source/Sichuan), China) is a [Sichuanese](/source/Sichuanese_people) activist, poet, and [Christian](/source/Christians).[3][4] He has been imprisoned since 1998.

## Life and imprisonment

The poet and campaigner for democracy, Li Bifeng, wrote a report in 1998 about a courageous sit-in of a group of textile workers on a Chinese highway. He passed the report to human rights organizations abroad. In 1989, he was arrested and sentenced to 5 years because of "economic crimes", after he had taken part in the [1989 Tiananmen Square protests](/source/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre) and had been on the run for half a year.

After being released from prison in 1994, Li joined an "[unofficial church](/source/House_church_(China))" and established an organization of conscience-based care for Chinese with fellow Christians to conduct written reports on the living conditions of laid-off workers, women, and children across the country, providing information and acting on both domestic and international levels. In 1998, he was arrested again and sentenced to 7 years in prison for "economic fraud".[1]

In November 2012, 48-year-old Li was sentenced to another twelve years in prison with no plausible reason or evidence and despite worldwide protests. The authorities accused him of helping his friend [Liao Yiwu](/source/Liao_Yiwu), the writer and winner of the [Peace Prize of the German Book Trade](/source/Friedenspreis_des_Deutschen_Buchhandels) in 2012, when he fled to Germany.

On 4 June 2013, the [Berlin International Literature Festival](/source/Berlin_International_Literature_Festival) held a worldwide reading for Li Bifeng.[5]

## See also

- [Wang Yi (pastor)](/source/Wang_Yi_(pastor))
- [Protestantism in Sichuan](/source/Protestantism_in_Sichuan)

## References

1. Zhang, Ping (16 September 2018). ["'残酷的童话'：狱中作家李必丰小说在柏林获赞"](https://www.dw.com/zh/%E6%AE%8B%E9%85%B7%E7%9A%84%E7%AB%A5%E8%AF%9D%E7%8B%B1%E4%B8%AD%E4%BD%9C%E5%AE%B6%E6%9D%8E%E5%BF%85%E4%B8%B0%E5%B0%8F%E8%AF%B4%E5%9C%A8%E6%9F%8F%E6%9E%97%E8%8E%B7%E8%B5%9E/a-45509255) ["A Cruel Fairy Tale": Li Bifeng's Novel Well Received in Berlin] (in Simplified Chinese). *[dw.com](/source/Deutsche_Welle)*. Retrieved 28 September 2023.

1. Yang, Qi (4 September 2020). ["四川异见作家李必丰出狱后在宾馆隔离"](https://www.chinaaid.net/2020/04/blog-post_9.html) [Sichuanese dissident writer Li Bifeng quarantined in hotel after being released from prison] (in Simplified Chinese). *[chinaaid.net](/source/ChinaAid.org)*. Retrieved 28 September 2023.

1. Liao, Yiwu (2013-06-04). [*For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey Through a Chinese Prison*](https://books.google.com/books?id=XSarQDqhWywC&pg=PA343). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 343–. ISBN 9780547892634. Retrieved 23 May 2013.

1. ["四川基督徒异议诗人李必丰再次入狱，疑因去年暗助廖亦武流亡海外"](https://www.chinaaid.net/2012/09/blog-post_1.html) [Li Bifeng, the Christian Dissident Poet from Sichuan, Has Been Jailed Again] (in Simplified Chinese). *chinaaid.net*. 1 September 2012. Retrieved 3 June 2021.

1. ["04.06.2013 - Worldwide Reading for Li Bifeng — Worldwide Reading"](http://www.worldwide-reading.com/archiv-en/04.06.2013-weltweite-lesung-fuer-li-bifeng?set_language=en). *www.worldwide-reading.com*. Retrieved 2016-03-31.

- [Guardian: Chinese poet Li Bifeng jailed for 12 years](http://www.chinaaid.org/2012/11/guardian-chinese-poet-li-bifeng-jailed.html)
- ['In this country, we can only hibernate': Chinese poet Li Bifeng sentenced to 12 years imprisonment](http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/2012/11/in-this-country-we-can-only-hibernate-chinese-poet-li-bifeng-sentenced-to-12-years)

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