Lin Aiqin (林爱钦), born in 1952, is a farmer-turned-rights petitioner from Shijing Village, Yuxing Subdistrict, Fuqing City, Fujian Province. For eight years she served as a villagers’ representative in disputes over village land, and is reported to have mailed more than 5,000 petition letters to central authorities from Beijing to avoid interception of her complaints at the local level.
On September 5, 2023, Lin was stopped by Beijing police while mailing petition materials near Chang’an Avenue. She was handed to a Fuqing interception team and returned to Fuqing, where the Fuqing Public Security Bureau placed her under criminal detention — dated September 7, 2023 in the CHRD record — on suspicion of offenses described in sources as “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” and, in the CHRD record, as “disrupting public order.” She was held at the Fuzhou City No. 2 Detention Center.
Roster records classify her as detained but not yet sentenced (羁押未判) as of August 2026, and no adjudication has been found in publicly available sources. Her husband’s contact line was published with the initial report; no family statement beyond that report has been located.
Status (as of latest evidence): Detained without adjudication — Fuzhou City No. 2 Detention Center per the 2023 record; classified 羁押未判 (detained, not sentenced) in the August 2026 roster. No sentence, release, or transfer information has been found; nothing is verified about her situation after August 2026.
Identity note: the Chinese name is 林爱钦 (the character form 林爱芹 is excluded and never used). She is not the same person as 林闺臣 (the Fuzhou 2020 Falun Gong case, different characters) or any other Lin-family detainee, and is not connected to the film-cast or academic entries for “Lin Aiqin” found during research. The six Fujian names grouped together in the Issue-131 roster subsection are a reporting grouping, not evidence of a group case or co-defendant status. The charge label differs across sources — “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” (维权网, 9/8), “disturbing the order of a unit” (权利运动, 9/16), “disrupting public order” (CHRD) — and is recorded as each source states it, not harmonized. No sentence, conviction, release, or transfer has been documented and none should be inferred.
Sources: 维权网 (2023-09-08 report); 权利运动 (2023-09-16, syndicated copy of the 维权网 report); CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database (record entered 2023-10-04); 维权网 Issue 131 (2026-08-31).
Media and documentation archive: Media and documentation archive for Lin Aiqin (林爱钦)