Not long afterwards Li, who in mainland China had already been arrested as a political prisoner by the right wing faction of the Kuomintang during a party purge, was detained on charges of being a member of a communist rebel organization, and escorted to Nanjing where he was held in prison.
不久，早在大陸期間曾因國民黨清黨，遭右派逮捕為政治犯的李友邦，以參加共匪組織罪名被押解到南京入獄。