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Nathan Law | |
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羅冠聰 | |
 Nathan Law in February 2015 | |
| Chairman of Demosistō | |
| Assumed office 10 April 2016 | |
| 58th Secretary General of Hong Kong Federation of Students | |
| In office 1 April 2015 – 31 March 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Alex Chow |
| Succeeded by | Chan Man-hei |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 July 1993 Mainland China |
| Citizenship | Hong Kong permanent resident |
| Nationality | Hong Kong Chinese |
| Political party | Demosistō |
| Residence | Hong Kong |
| Alma mater | Lingnan University |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Known for | 2014 Hong Kong protests |
Nathan Law Kwun-chung (Chinese: 羅冠聰; born 13 July 1993) is a politician in Hong Kong. He is a former student leader, having been chairman of the Representative Council of the Lingnan University Students' Union, acting president of the Lingnan University Students' Union and secretary general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS). He was one of the student leaders during the 79-days Umbrella Revolution in 2014. He has been the current chairman of Demosisto, a new political party derived from the 2014 protests.
Biography
Law was born in Mainland China to a Hong Kong father and a Mainland mother. He moved to Hong Kong with his mother for family reunion when he was around six years old.[1] He studied at HKFEW Wong Cho Bau Secondary School and Cultural Studies at the Lingnan University.
Law was active in student activism and participated the 2013 Hong Kong dock strike. He joined and became the chairman of the Representative Council of the Lingnan University Students' Union and was the committee member of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS). He later also became the acting president of the Lingnan University Students' Union.
During the Umbrella Revolution, he rose as one of the student leaders and was one of the five student representatives to hold a talk with the government representatives led by Chief Secretary for Administration Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor in October 2014. He was also one of three student leaders at the heart of the Occupy protests who were banned from flying to Beijing in an attempt to press their demands for genuine universal suffrage in November 2014.[2] After the protests, he was arrested along with other student leaders.[3]
After the protests, Law succeeded Alex Chow Yong-kang to become the secretary general of Hong Kong Federation of Students from 2015 to 2016. He won with 37 votes from the 53 student representatives from seven tertiary institutions qualified to vote in the annual election. His only rival, Jason Szeto Tse-long, secured 14 votes.[2] His secretaryship was the midst of the membership crisis that saw localist students from member institutions trigger referendums to break away after the HKFS, which was accused of making hasty decisions with little transparency during the Umbrella Revolution.[2]
In April 2016, Law and other leaders of the Umbrella Revolution including Joshua Wong Chi-fung formed a new political party Demosisto which aimed to fight for the self-determination right of Hong Kong people when the "One Country, Two Systems" expires in 2047, where he became the founding chairman of the new party. He has expressed his interest in running in Hong Kong Island in the 2016 Legislative Council election.[4]
References
- ^ "羅冠聰忙政事少歸家 母：同吃一頓飯就夠". Ming Pao. 7 May 2016.
- ^ a b c "Hong Kong Federation of Students elects Nathan Law as secretary general". South China Morning Post. 23 March 2015.
- ^ 星島新聞集團 (2015). 讀社論學英文第七卷. Sing Tao Publishing. p. 217.
- ^ "Joshua Wong's party named 'Demosisto'". Radio Television Hong Kong. 6 April 2016.
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