Hong Kong Activists Convicted; Alliance Dissolved
A Hong Kong court is delivering verdicts in the national security trial of Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung, former leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance, charged with inciting subversion linked to the 1989 Tiananmen vigils, with penalties up to 10 years. The case is widely viewed as emblematic of eroded freedoms and intensified crackdown on dissent under Beijing's security law, drawing international attention to Hong Kong's shrinking space for pro-democracy activism.
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About Lee Cheuk-yan
Lee Cheuk-yan is a Hong Kong politician and social activist. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1995 to 2016, when he lost his seat. He represented the Kowloon West and the Manufacturing constituencies briefly in 1995 and had been representing the New Territories West constituency from 1998 to 2016. He is a former trade union leader, former General Secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, as well as former chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. He has been jailed since April 2021 for his role in the Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests, having been sentenced for organizing two unauthorized assemblies; for an alleged offence of subversion of the state, no trial date has been set as of February 2024.
Everything about Lee Cheuk-yan →- Occupation
- politician, trade unionist
- Position held
- member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
- Citizenship
- People's Republic of China, British Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
- Born
- February 12, 1957