Li Zhi is a Chinese dissident. He worked as a civil servant in Dazhou. He was arrested in 2003 for his postings of information on local corruption on the Internet.
Arrest
At a time when the internet began to gain popularity with Chinese dissidents to exchange their views, while police had begun monitoring chatrooms, Li posted essays online that detailed local corruption.[1] He was detained in Sichuan province in August 2003, formally charged with "conspiracy to subvert state power" in September,[2] and sentenced for "inciting subversion" to eight years imprisonment in December that year.[1] He was convicted also for his association with the Democracy Party of China, which is a banned organization in communist China.[3] The Congressional-Executive Commission on China describes him as a political prisoner.[4]