Li Dequan (李德全) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Xinghua Community, Changyi District, Jilin City, Jilin Province. Rights-monitoring records report that he was arrested in April 2024 and sentenced in 2026 to six years in prison.
Background
Rights Defense Network reports that Li was born in 1959 and began practicing Falun Gong in 1998 with his younger brother, Li Dexiang. The network states that he had already served a cumulative ten years in prison before the current case; details of those earlier terms were not located in the reviewed record.
2024–2026 case
Rights Defense Network and the CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database report that police arrested Li at his home in April 2024. In May 2026, those sources reported that he had been sentenced to six years in prison and was being held at Gongzhuling Prison in Jilin Province. The formal criminal charge is listed as unknown.
Status and evidence limits
The CHRD database gives April 2030 as the term endpoint. Rights Defense Network Issue 131 lists 李德全 among reported current prisoners in its six-year-sentence group as of August 31, 2026. No public court judgment or official PRC account was located. The April 2030 date is retained as a monitoring-record value, not independently verified release information.
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