Eddie Chan Shu-fai
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Eddie Chan Shu-fai (, born 29 October 1990) is a Hong Kong pro-democracy politician of the New Territories West,
social activist Activism (or Advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good. Forms of activism range fro ...
, former vice-convener of the Civil Human Rights Front, Secretary of the Hong Kong Catholic Justice and Peace Committee, president of the
Lingnan University Lingnan University (LN/LU), formerly called Lingnan College, is a public liberal arts university in Hong Kong. It aims to provide students with an education in the liberal arts tradition and has joined the Global Liberal Arts Alliance since ...
Student Union, Secretary-General of the
Hong Kong Federation of Students The Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS, or 學聯) is a student organisation founded in May 1958 by the student unions of four higher education institutions in Hong Kong. The inaugural committee had seven members representing the four sc ...
and a former district Councillor for the Yuen Long District. In May 2013, he along with 10 other activists filed a complaint against the police at the
Independent Police Complaints Council The Independent Police Complaints Council (IPCC) is a civilian body of the Government of Hong Kong, part of the two-tier system in which the Hong Kong Police Force investigates complaints made by the public against its members and the IPCC ...
(IPCC) for brutality against protesters.


Politics

Chan ran for the Yuen Long District in the
2019 Hong Kong local elections The 2019 Hong Kong District Council elections were held on 24 November 2019 for all 18 District Councils of Hong Kong. 452 seats from all directly elected constituencies, out of the 479 seats in total, were contested. Nearly three million people ...
and won with over 1775 votes, which represented 52.2% of the total votes cast.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chan, Eddie 1990 births Living people HKFS people Hong Kong democracy activists District councillors of Yuen Long District Alumni of Lingnan University (Hong Kong)