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Revision as of 19:09, 27 January 2018
Tommy Cheung Sau-yin | |
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張秀賢 | |
![]() Tommy Cheung in 2014. | |
President of the Student Union of the Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
In office 1 March 2014 – 28 February 2015 | |
Preceded by | Eason Chung |
Succeeded by | Wong Ching-fung |
Personal details | |
Born | Hong Kong | 16 April 1994
Education | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Tommy Cheung Sau-yin (Chinese: 張秀賢; born 16 April 1994) is a Hong Kong activist. He is the former spokesman of Scholarism, president of the Student Union of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the standing committee of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS).
Biography
He was a core member of Scholarism which was formed in 2011 to launch campaigns against the proposed Moral and National Education 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.[1]
Cheung was later enrolled to the Chinese University of Hong Kong, studying Politics and Public Administration. He became the president of the Student Union in 2014 and the member of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (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.[2] He became one of the nine leading figures arrested in 2017 for initiating the illegal assembly.[3]
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 Electoral Affairs Commission because of his "insufficient connection" with the Higher Education subsector.[4]
In the 2018 New Territories East by-election, Cheung announced his candidacy and joined the pro-democracy primary, running against Gary Fan of Neo Democrats and Kwok Wing-kin of the Labour Party.
References
- ^ Wong, Stan Hok-Wui (2015). Electoral Politics in Post-1997 Hong Kong: Protest, Patronage, and the Media. Springer. p. 93.
- ^ "Student protesters to decide on next step soon". Ejinsight. 24 November 2014.
- ^ "'Occupy' heads set to face charges". Chind Daily. 28 March 2017.
- ^ "Four more barred from Hong Kong Election Committee bid, including student activist Tommy Cheung". South China Morning Post. 18 November 2016.