Li Yanmin (李延民) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Tianxing Village, Shaoguo Town, Nongan County, Changchun City, Jilin Province. He was detained in March 2023 and, in January 2024, was reported to have been sentenced to four years in prison, which he was serving at Gongzhuling Prison. He had been repeatedly detained and twice assigned to forced labor for his religious practice since 1999.
Background and earlier persecution
Li Yanmin, born in 1974, is a native of Tianxing Village in Shaoguo Town, Nongan County. He began practicing Falun Gong in 1996. After July 1999, he was detained multiple times. In December 2000, he traveled to Beijing to appeal and was detained, then assigned to two years at the Jiutai forced labor camp, where reporting describes electric-baton torture and a four-month extension for refusing to comply with the camp’s demands.
In April 2009, he and his wife were detained by Shaoguo Town police; he was assigned one year at the Weizigou forced labor camp. The victim profile states that his wife was also subjected to forced labor twice, including a year at the Heizhuzi women’s labor camp in Changchun. Family members were repeatedly harassed, searched, and pressured at their home over the years, including visits by Shaoguo Town police and village officials in 2021 and February 2023 demanding photographs and saliva samples.
The 2023 case
On March 3, 2023, Li Yanmin was detained by Shaoguo Town police at a neighbor’s home in Tianxing Village; villagers who witnessed the arrest described him being beaten, handcuffed, and dragged across the ground to a police vehicle. He was held at Nongan County Detention Center and then criminally detained, with his arrest approved and his case indicted. In January 2024, it was reported that he had been sentenced to four years in prison and transferred to Gongzhuling Prison. The charge was not specified in the available reporting. His family was refused visits at the prison.
Current status
According to the case record, Li Yanmin was serving his four-year term at Gongzhuling Prison, with the term set to run through March 2, 2027. No independently verified information beyond the dated case records is available regarding his custody, transfer, or release. (His present-day status is unverified and is not asserted here.)
A note on identity
The following similarly named individuals are verified as distinct people and must not be merged with this profile: 李亚民 (Li Yamin), 李延香 (Li Yanxiang), 李彦春 (Li Yanchun), 李艳萍 (Li Yanping), 李艳平 (Li Yanping), and 王延明 (Wang Yanming).
Sources: The biographical and case details above come from a human-rights case database and a practitioner-affiliated victim profile (Chinese language) with linked reporting. The criminal charge was not disclosed in the sources reviewed, and the detention-to-sentencing narrative reflects those sources’ accounts.
Media and documentation archive: Media and documentation archive for Li Yanmin (李延民)