The Li Hongyuan Incident, or commonly cited as "Huawei 251"[1][2] on the Chinese internet, refers to the 251-day detention and arrest without indictment of Li Hongyuan, a former employee of Huawei. Li had a labor dispute with Huawei and was detained for investigations on embezzlement, breach of confidentiality, and coercion from 16 December 2018 to 23 August 2019 due to the accusations by Huawei. Details of the detention were revealed in late November 2019,[not verified in body] leading to criticism of Huawei and Chinese law enforcement authorities, while the Communist Youth League of China and Chinese left-wing nationalists blamed the incident on the United States.
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