Canonical person profile: Lin Qilei / 蔺其磊
Lin Qilei / 蔺其磊
Beijing rights-defense lawyer and founder of Beijing Ruikai Law Firm. This archive separates first-person accounts, third-party reporting, and authorities’ stated administrative rationale.
Selected sources
- China Change — “Lin’s Uprising,” November 21, 2021 — Lin’s first-person video transcript describing Ruikai’s shutdown and his license revocation.
- CCBE letter, December 17, 2021 — disbarment of Lin Qilei and Liang Xiaojun and the bureau rationale as relayed by CCBE.
- CHRD, December 6, 2021 — revocation notice, Hong Kong 12 representation, earlier case work, and related documentary material.
- CHRD Annual Report 2021, March 7, 2022 — disbarment entry.
- Front Line Defenders — Lin Qilei profile.
- Front Line Defenders — case history, November 11, 2015 — travel-ban incident at Beijing Capital Airport.
Evidence limits: the specific Hong Kong 12 client, birth year, pre-Ruikai firm history, and post-2021 activity are not established in the current record. The bureau’s disbarment rationale remains attributed to the bureau; Lin’s contradictory account is preserved separately.