Person profile: Di Jianchao (狄建超)
This archive collects the documented media and source record for Di Jianchao (狄建超), a Kunming Falun Gong practitioner whose case has been covered by Minghui continuously from 2004 through 2026, including detailed reporting on his 2025–2026 arrest, hunger strike, and trial.
**Source chronology**
– *December 2004.* Minghui reported that Di Jianchao, 39, and Wang Shiqing of the Shipping Machinery Ltd. in Kunming were arrested November 20, 2004 by Anning City police while distributing truth-clarification materials, and taken to the Anning Detention Center on November 22. *August 2022.* Minghui’s survey of Falun Gong practitioners held at Yunnan First Prison lists “2004 — Di Jianchao (4)” among sentences served there.
– *March 2014.* Minghui reported the February 24, 2014 arrest of Di and Luo Jiangqin at home by Panlong District police for producing Falun Gong informational materials.
– *July 2025.* Minghui reported Di’s July 15, 2025 arrest at home by eighteen officers, the home raid, and his detention at the Guandu District Detention Center.
– *January 2026.* The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (追查国际) opened a case file on Di (January 23, 2026, updated May 25, 2026), confirming the Chinese name 狄建超, the surveillance since May 2025, the Guandu detention, the January 7, 2026 hospitalization after a six-day hunger strike, the denied medical-bail request, and the April 24 trial and April 30 sentence (4 years, 6,000-yuan fine). It lists the responsible units and personnel.
– *May 2026.* Minghui published the trial account (May 19) and sentencing report (May 30): the April 24, 2026 Wuhua District Court trial, the defense’s procedural challenges, Di’s silent protest, the barring of his wife as defender, and the April 30 verdict. The sentencing report notes it was unclear whether Di had been admitted to prison.
– *August 31, 2026.* Rights Defense Network Issue 131 roster lists Di Jianchao among reported current custody cases.
**Source provenance and grading**
– *Minghui (en.minghui.org):* Falun-Gong-affiliated outlet; the primary and most detailed source across the entire case history. The 2026 trial and sentencing reports are detailed and internally consistent, drawing on defense-lawyer accounts.
– *World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong / 追查国际 (zhuichaguoji.org):* Falun-Gong-affiliated investigative-advocacy organization; corroborates the 2025–2026 chronology and is the source verifying the Chinese characters 狄建超.
– *Rights Defense Network Issue 131 (August 31, 2026):* source roster listing only; confirms reported current custody, no case details.
**Evidentiary limitations**
– No official court judgment or government record has been published; the 2026 verdict details come from Minghui’s report and the 追查国际 notice, both Falun-Gong-affiliated sources.
– Prison admission after the April 30, 2026 sentence is unconfirmed in any source.
– The 2004 and 2014 cases rest on Minghui reporting alone.
– Reporting-date note: a February 2026 Minghui item described a trial “scheduled” for February 6, 2026; later reporting confirms the trial actually took place on April 24, 2026 after two postponements. The February date was a postponed scheduled date, not the trial date.