Person profile: Liu Deyu (柳德玉)
This archive preserves reporting on Liu Deyu, a Falun Gong practitioner from Jingmen, Hubei, who monitoring sources report died in custody around Spring Festival 2024.
Earlier detention history
Minghui’s victim dossier reports detention and imprisonment beginning around 1999–2000, including labor-camp and prison terms and allegations of mistreatment. These claims remain source-attributed.
2022–2023 — latest sentence and prison transfer
The sources report Liu’s July 8, 2022 detention, an October 28 trial at the Dongbao District Court, a four-year sentence plus a 5,000-yuan fine, and transfer to Shayang Fanjia… Prison on May 10, 2023.
Reported death in 2024
Rights Defense Network reported on July 19, 2026 that Liu died around the Spring Festival of 2024 at age 68. CHRD’s record, updated August 22, 2026, lists his status as deceased.
Rights Defense Network death report · CHRD database record
Issue 131 stale-listing conflict
Rights Defense Network Issue 131, dated August 31, 2026, still lists 柳德玉 in the current four-year-sentence group. That conflicts with its own earlier death report and CHRD’s deceased record. The current-custody roster entry is treated as stale.
Evidence limits
No official death certificate, court judgment, or independent confirmation of the reported death was located. Rights Defense Network reports 16 cumulative years in custody while CHRD reports 12; that discrepancy remains unresolved. Treatment allegations remain attributed to the cited monitoring outlets.