Mr Li was a well-known lawyer who defended farmers and Christian pastors, work that garnered him an award from the Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy in 2008.
He died just hours after being admitted to No 81 People’s Liberation Army Hospital for a minor stomach ache, a relative of Mr Li’s told Bob Fu, a Christian activist who has known the lawyer for over a decade.
Mr Fu said in a statement through his US-based Christian non-profit group China Aid that the “Chinese regime should be totally held accountable” for Mr Li’s sudden and “mysterious” death.
“The hospital alleged that he had liver problems and that he bled to death, but Li was previously healthy,” the statement said.
“China has a history of either neglecting the medical conditions of human rights activists until they succumb to them or declaring previously healthy people dead.”
A spokesman for the hospital said he had not heard of Mr Li’s case.
“I do not know who this person is,” the spokesman added, saying that death and causes of death are a “private matter”.
Mr Fu and Mr Li attended the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington together earlier this month.
The lawyer’s work defending arrested Chinese pastors often prompted death threats, Mr Fu said. The lawyer had suffered injuries while allegedly being beaten by plainclothes security agents…
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