Li Tingting

The activists were subjected to repetitive questioning by authorities about the planned anti-sexual harassment activity. The questions moved on to the involvement of foreign forces, which Li reports seemed to have made the authorities extremely nervous. Li was also asked about other public protests she had been involved in. The authorities even printed images of a topless protest, censoring the activists' nipples with black crosses. The office of the NGO Li worked for was also raided, as it was through this work that she had been most involved with gender equality advocacy and LGBT work. Although the authorities wanted information about this company, Li was not in a management position. Since her release, Li has stated that the authorities would suddenly burst into the room and shout: “Li Tingting, you haven’t been honest with us, you’re lying again!” Then attempt to intimidate with non-specified new evidence.

Li has since graduated from the University of Essex on February 23, 2019.

In a 2016 video release, Li stated that her current campaign work focusses on preventing forced marriage.

On March 6th 2015, police officers arrived at Li's apartment where she was living with her partner. At first, since Li couldn't do anything, Li pulled out her ukulele and played a song, while her girlfriend sang. Li initially did not open the door and overheard conversation between the officers that they had monitored her phone calls. She eventually opened the door when the officers called a locksmith to break through the door. Li reports that the police presented her with a blank detention warrant, searched her apartment and confiscated both her and her partner's electronics. The police then took Li and her partner away in separate vehicles. Li was first taken to the local police station, where police went through her private phone calls. When requested to unlock her phone, Li took the opportunity to delete her WeChat history.

On April 13th 2015, Li was released, along with the other four activists. According to her lawyer, the release was conditional, which would allow charges to be brought against Li later.

Li has been involved with several public demonstrations in China. In 2012, she walked down a shopping street in Beijing wearing a bridal gown spattered with blood stains with two other volunteers to draw attention to domestic violence in China. Although the crowds were mainly receptive, many observers were reportedly awkward at personal matters being aired in public. During the event, urban management officials followed the three women, reprimanding them for not registering their demonstration. Li also participated in the Occupy Men's Room (Chinese: 占领男厕所 ) demonstration with Zheng Churan. The event protested the huge queues for women's toilets by encouraging female demonstrators to use men's toilets in turn with; this disallowed the few men that wanted to use the toilets to do so. This demonstration drew much attention from national and international media, as well as online discussion, particularly for the way it encouraged male solidarity with a gendered cause.

Li has had 36 exhibitions from 2005-2013. She had: