Tommy Cheung Sau-yin (; born 16 April 1994) is a Hong Kong activist and a former

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lor. He is the former spokesman of

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, president of the of the

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and the standing committee of the

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(HKFS). In July 2024 he was declared bankrupt by High Court of Hong Kong.

Biography

He was a core member of

which was formed in 2011 to launch campaigns against the proposed

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which was seen as biased pro-Communist curriculum and became the spokesman of the group. The campaign successfully mobilised the thousands in protest and led to the turndown of the curriculum by the government in September 2012. Cheung was later enrolled to the

, studying Politics and Public Administration. He became the president of the Student Union in 2014 and the member of the

(HKFS). He was actively involved in the massive Occupy protests in 2014 against the Beijing's decision on the framework of the

2017 Chief Executive election The 2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive election was held on 26 March 2017 for the 5th term of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong (CE), the highest office of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Former Chief Secretary for Administration ...

. He became one of the nine leading figures arrested in 2017 for initiating the illegal assembly. He led the seven-member "Student United 2017" running in the Election Committee subsector elections in December 2016 on the capacity of the former member of the Chinese University's Senate but his candidacy was barred by the Returning Officer of the

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because of his "insufficient connection" with the Higher Education subsector. In the

2018 New Territories East by-election The 2018 Hong Kong Legislative Council by-election was held on 11 March 2018 for four of the six vacancies in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo) - the Hong Kong Island, Kowloon West and New Territories East geographical constituencie ...

, Cheung announced his candidacy and joined the pro-democracy primary, running against

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and

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of the Labour Party. Cheung was elected to public office for the first time during the 2019 Hong Kong District Council elections, winning a seat in Yuen Lung. He defeated incumbent Wilson Wong by 900 votes. On 22 October 2021, Cheung decided to resign as district councillor ahead of oath-taking, for health reasons because he was diagnosed with

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. Cheung defected to the

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after his resignation, and joined Basic Law Student Centre.

References

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