Albert Ho Chun-yan (; born 1 December 1951) is a solicitor and politician in Hong Kong. He is the former chairman (2014–2019) and vice-chair (2019–2021) of the
,
and former chairman of the
Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to:
*Democratic Party (United States)
Democratic Party and similar terms may also refer to:
Active parties Africa
*Botswana Democratic Party
*Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea
*Gabonese Democratic Party
*Demo ...
from 2006 to 2012. He is a
solicitor
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and a former member of the
Legislative Council of Hong Kong
The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (LegCo) is the unicameral legislature of Hong Kong. It sits under China's " one country, two systems" constitutional arrangement, and is the power centre of Hong Kong ...
for
District Council (Second)
The District Council (Second) functional constituency () was a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong which was created in the 2012 constitutional reform package. It was the largest functional constituen ...
constituency.
Early life and education
Ho was born in what was then
British Hong Kong
Hong Kong was a colony and later a dependent territory of the British Empire from 1841 to 1997, apart from a period of occupation under the Japanese Empire from 1941 to 1945 during the Pacific War. The colonial period began with the Briti ...
on 1 December 1951 in a big family with six children. His father worked in a shipping company by day and as a translator by night, along with two other jobs that he had.
Ho got his
Bachelor of Laws
Bachelor of Laws ( la, Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B.) is an undergraduate law degree in the United Kingdom and most common law jurisdictions. Bachelor of Laws is also the name of the law degree awarded by universities in the People's Republic of Chi ...
with honors in the
University of Hong Kong
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) (Chinese: 香港大學) is a public research university in Hong Kong. Founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, it is the oldest tertiary institution in Hong Kong. HKU was also the fi ...
in 1974, and obtained a
Postgraduate Certificate in Laws
The Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (PCLL; 法學專業證書) is an intensive one-year full-time (or two-year part-time) professional legal qualification programme in Hong Kong. It allows graduates to proceed to legal training before qualifyi ...
in 1975.
He attended lectures given by Hsu Kwan-san, a Chinese historian who later became a professor at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public research university in Ma Liu Shui, Hong Kong, formally established in 1963 by a charter granted by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It is the territory's second-oldest university an ...
, whom Ho cited as influence for his political beliefs and Chinese national sentiment. During his college life, he developed his liberal ideals, got actively involved in student politics and campaigned for
Mak Hoi-wah
Mak Hoi-wah (; born 9 April 1951) is a Hong Kong politician, social worker and social activist. He was the member of the Wong Tai Sin District Board and former vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements ...
who ran for the
Hong Kong University Students' Union
The Hong Kong University Students' Union (HKUSU; ) was a students' union in Hong Kong registered under the Societies Ordinance founded in 1912. It was the officially recognized undergraduate students' association of the University of Hong Kong ...
against the Maoist nationalists who dominated the student union in the 1970s.
Legal and early political career
Ho got
admission to practice law
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in 1977 and was appointed a
notary public of the common law in 1988. He was employed for Messrs. C.Y. Kwan & Co. as a solicitor for nearly 20 years, then left to set up his own law firm, Ho, Tse, Wai & Partners. His
litigation
-
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experience varied from banking cases and commercial law to land law and matrimonial disputes, as well as in criminal and medical negligence cases. Albert Ho worked a number of human rights cases on a
pro bono
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(undertaken voluntarily and without payment) for the
pan-democracy camp
The pro-democracy camp, also known as the pan-democracy camp, is a political alignment in Hong Kong that supports increased democracy, namely the universal suffrage of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Chief Executive and the Legislative Cou ...
.
Ho stepped into politics when he was first appointed to the
Kowloon City District Board
The Kowloon City District Council () is the district council for the Kowloon City District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Kowloon City District Council currently consists of 25 members, of which the district is divided into 25 ...
from 1982 to 1983.
In 1985 he co-founded the
Hong Kong Affairs Society
The Hong Kong Affairs Society () was a middle class and professionals oriented political organisation formed in 1984 for the discussion for the Hong Kong prospect and political constitution after the handover to China with about 20 members led ...
(HKAS) to participate in the electoral politics during the transition period. During his spell as the leader of the HKAS, he demanded a faster pace of democratisation in Hong Kong and the safeguarding of freedom and way of life after the handover of Hong Kong to Mainland China after 1997. In 1989, he co-founded the
to support the
Tiananmen protests of 1989
The Tiananmen Square protests, known in Chinese as the June Fourth Incident (), were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing during 1989. In what is known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, or in Chinese the June Four ...
and was critical of the Beijing government's bloody crackdown. He became the third chairman of the Alliance since 2014, succeeding
Lee Cheuk-yan
Lee Cheuk-yan (; born 12 February 1957 in Shanghai) 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 Manufac ...
.
He ran for the
Urban Council
The Urban Council (UrbCo) was a municipal council in Hong Kong responsible for municipal services on Hong Kong Island and in Kowloon (including New Kowloon). These services were provided by the council's executive arm, the Urban Services ...
in Kowloon City West in the
1986 municipal election but was defeated by incumbent
Peter Chan Chi-kwan Peter Chan Chi-kwan ( Chinese: 陳子鈞, 7 March 1936 – March 2017) was a barrister-at-law and a member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong for more than twenty years. He was the founding member and former vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Civic Asso ...
. He ran again in the
1991 Urban Council election in
Southern District but was again losing to incumbent
Joseph Chan Yuet-sut of the conservative
Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong
The Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong (, abbreviated 自民聯; LDF) was a pro-Beijing pro-business and conservative political party in Hong Kong. It was established in 1990, and was composed of mainly conservative businessmen and prof ...
. He was elected to the
Regional Council in the
municipal elections
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in 1995, receiving the largest number of votes in the Regional Council.
He kept served on the council through 1997 until it was abolished by
Chief Executive
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Tung Chee-hwa
Tung Chee-hwa (; born 7 July 1937) is a Hong Kong businessman and politician who served as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong between 1997 and 2005, upon the transfer of sovereignty on 1 July. He is currently a vice-chairman of the Chin ...
in 2000.
Ho was a member of the
Tuen Mun District Council
The Tuen Mun District Council () is the District Council of Tuen Mun District, in the New Territories. It is one of 18 such councils. The Council consists of 32 members with 31 of those elected through first past the post system every four year ...
for
Lok Tsui since the
1999 District Council election. He was targeted by the radical democrats, including
Albert Chan
Albert Chan Wai-yip (born 3 March 1955, Hong Kong) is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong representing the New Territories West constituency. He has served as a legislator from 1991 to 2016 except for the periods 1997–2 ...
of the
People Power
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in the
2011 District Council election who opposed the Democrats' compromise with the Beijing officials on the
2012 constitutional reform proposals and in the
2015 District Council election by
Civic Passion
Civic Passion was a radical, populist, localist, and nativist political party in Hong Kong. Founded by Wong Yeung-tat as an activist group in 2012, it held strong localist views and opposed the involvement of the Chinese government in the gov ...
's
Cheng Chung-tai
Cheng Chung-tai (; born 5 November 1983) is a Hong Kong academic, social activist, and politician. After winning a seat in the New Territories West constituency in the 2016 legislative election, he took over from Wong Yeung-tat as chairman of C ...
. He kept the seat for 15 years but was defeated in 2015 by
pro-Beijing
The pro-Beijing camp, pro-establishment camp, pro-government camp or pro-China camp refers to a political alignment in Hong Kong which generally supports the policies of the Beijing central government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) t ...
lawyer
Junius Ho
Junius Ho Kwan-yiu (; born 4 June 1962) is a Hong Kong lawyer and politician who currently serves as a member in the Hong Kong Legislative Council. a prominent pro Beijing figure in Hong Kong’s political landscape, he formerly served as pre ...
in 2015 by a narrow margin of 277 votes.
Legislative Councillor
In April 1990, Ho and other pro-democracy activists co-founded the
United Democrats of Hong Kong
The United Democrats of Hong Kong (; UDHK) was a short-lived political party in Hong Kong founded in 1990 as the united front of the liberal democracy forces in preparation of the 1991 first ever direct election for the Legislative Council of ...
(UDHK), the first major pro-democracy party in the city, of which he became the founding vice-chairman. The party transformed into today's
Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to:
*Democratic Party (United States)
Democratic Party and similar terms may also refer to:
Active parties Africa
*Botswana Democratic Party
*Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea
*Gabonese Democratic Party
*Demo ...
in 1994 when he became a member of the party's first executive committee. In 1992, he ran for the
by-election
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in
New Territories West
New Territories West (NTW) is the western part of Hong Kong's New Territories, covering Yuen Long, Tuen Mun, Tsuen Wan, Kwai Tsing and the Islands District.
History
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as his first attempt to the
Legislative Council after incumbent Democrat
Ng Ming-yum
Ng Ming-yum (; 13 April 1955 – 22 June 1992) was a Hong Kong politician and writer. He was a key founder of the United Democrats of Hong Kong (forerunner of the Democratic Party), a member of the Tuen Mun District Council, an elected member o ...
died of cancer. He was defeated by conservative rural leader
Tang Siu-tong
Tang Siu-tong, SBS, JP (born 26 September 1942 in Hong Kong), was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1992 to 2004. by only four percent of the votes. He ran again in New Territories West in
1995 Legislative Council election, receiving 54 percent of the popular vote.
He stepped down from the colonial legislature on 30 June 1997 on the eve of the
handover of Hong Kong
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after the Beijing government dismantled the "through train" agreement of allowing the 1995 elected legislature to transition beyond 1997. The Democratic Party boycotted the
Provisional Legislative Council
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controlled by Beijing and refused to take part in it. In November 1997, Ho was nominated by the Democratic Party to run for a seat in the
National People's Congress
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With 2, ...
, but excluded from competition when he failed to obtain the minimum number of nominations from the 400-strong Beijing-appointed election conference.
In the
first Legislative Council election of the SAR period in 1998, Ho won a seat in the New Territories West with his party colleague
Lee Wing-tat
Lee Wing-tat (; born 25 December 1955) is a former Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo), returned by direct election as representative of the New Territories West constituency. He was the former third Chairman of the Democrat ...
. With his strong basis in his strategic district
Tuen Mun
Tuen Mun or Castle Peak is an area near the mouth of Tuen Mun River and Castle Peak Bay in the New Territories, Hong Kong. It was one of the earliest settlements in what is now Hong Kong and can be dated to the Neolithic period. In the more re ...
, he was re-elected in 2000 with one of the three Democratic Party tickets.
Albert Chan
Albert Chan Wai-yip (born 3 March 1955, Hong Kong) is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong representing the New Territories West constituency. He has served as a legislator from 1991 to 2016 except for the periods 1997–2 ...
who had a strong basis in
Tsuen Wan
Tsuen Wan (formerly also spelled Tsun Wan) is a town built on a bay in the western New Territories of Hong Kong, opposite of Tsing Yi Island across Rambler Channel. The market town of Tsuen Wan emerged from the surrounding villages and flee ...
was also elected at the expense of Lee Wing-tat. Ho was re-elected in 2004. After the election, he unsuccessfully challenged
Rita Fan
Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai (; ' Hsu; ''born'' Hsu Ching-li; born 20 September 1945) is a senior Hong Kong politician. She was the first President of the Hong Kong SAR Legislative Council from 1998 to 2008 and a member of the Standing Committee of ...
in the
Legco presidential election.
On 20 August 2006, Ho was assaulted by three unidentified men using
baseball bat
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s and a
baton
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Stick-like objects
*Baton, a type of club
*Baton (law enforcement)
*Baston (weapon), a type of baton used in Arnis and Filipino Martial Arts
*Baton charge, a coordinated tactic for dispersing crowds of people
*Baton (conductin ...
in a McDonald's restaurant in
Central, Hong Kong
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, after he had attended a protest against the government's plan to adopt a
Goods and Services Tax. He suffered injuries to his head, arm and face, including a broken nose.
Democratic Party Chairman
Between 2004 and 2006 Ho was the vice-chairman of the
Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to:
*Democratic Party (United States)
Democratic Party and similar terms may also refer to:
Active parties Africa
*Botswana Democratic Party
*Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea
*Gabonese Democratic Party
*Demo ...
. In December 2006, he was elected as party chairman in the
leadership election
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Generally, any political party can determine its own rules governing how and when a l ...
, defeating
Chan King-ming
Chan King-ming is a Hong Kong politician and academic. He served as the vice-chairman of the Democratic Party of Hong Kong from 2004 to 2006. He is also an associate professor in the department of biochemistry and Environmental Science Progra ...
of the reformist faction. During his tenure, the party absorbed
Emily Lau
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* Emily (given name), including a list of people with the name
Music
* "Emily" (1964 song), title song by Johnny Mandel and Johnny Mercer to the film ''The Americanization of Emily''
* "Emily" (Dave Koz song), a 1990 song ...
's
The Frontier in 2008.
In June 2010, he led the Democratic Party delegation to the
Liaison Office to negotiate the
electoral reform package with the representatives of the Beijing government. The Beijing government eventually accepted the Democratic Party's modified proposal to allow five new directly elected
District Council (Second)
The District Council (Second) functional constituency () was a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong which was created in the 2012 constitutional reform package. It was the largest functional constituen ...
seats. The compromise sparked extreme discontent among the radical democrats and created a major unrest among the pan-democracy camp. He was challenged by radical democrat legislator
Albert Chan
Albert Chan Wai-yip (born 3 March 1955, Hong Kong) is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong representing the New Territories West constituency. He has served as a legislator from 1991 to 2016 except for the periods 1997–2 ...
in his
Lok Tsui constituency in the following
2011 District Council election and barely retained his seat.
In the
2012 Legislative Council election
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, Ho ran in the newly created District Council (Second) constituency and was elected with 228,840 votes. However, his party continued being attacked by the radical democrats and received the worst result in history, retaining only six seats. Ho resigned as party chairman right after the election results came out and was replaced by Emily Lau as acting chairwoman.
2012 Chief Executive bid
Albert Ho announced on 4 October 2011 that he would stand in the
2012 Chief Executive election, which is elected in a small-circle election dominated by pro-Beijing members. Having won the pan-democratic primary against
Frederick Fung
Frederick Fung Kin-kee, SBS, JP (; born 17 March 1953) is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1991 to 1997 and from 2000 to 2016 and the former chairman of the pro-democracy Hong Kong Association for Democracy and Peo ...
of the
ADLP on 8 January 2012, Ho ran against the two pro-Beijing candidates, ex-convenor of the
Executive Council Leung Chun-ying
Leung Chun-ying (; born 12 August 1954), also known as CY Leung, is a Hong Kong politician and chartered surveyor, who has served as vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference since Mar ...
and former
Chief Secretary Henry Tang
Henry Tang Ying-yen (; born 6 September 1952) is a Hong Kong politician who served as the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong between 2007 and 2011. He held the position of Financial Secretary from 2003 to 2007. In 2012, he lost the Hong Kong Chief ...
. Out of the 1,132 EC votes, Ho came third with only 76; Leung Chun-ying was elected with 689 votes.
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on 25 March 2012.
Snowden incident
In 2013, Ho grabbed international headlines after it was revealed that he had assisted
Edward Snowden
Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American and naturalized Russian former computer intelligence consultant who leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013, when he was an employee and su ...
during the latter's stay in Hong Kong.
2014 Hong Kong protests
In October 2014, during
pro-democracy protests that began on 26 September, Ho said he was prepared to take a bullet if demonstrations turned violent. He did not support violence in the cause of democracy, but was willing to make a "sacrifice" on behalf of young people "because the future belongs to them."
Life after tenure as a member of the Legislative Council
2019–20 Hong Kong protests
Albert Ho continued to support the pro-democracy movement, and took part in the
Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests. On 18 April 2020, Ho was one of 15 Hong Kong high-profile democracy figures arrested on suspicion of organizing, publicizing or taking part in several unauthorized assemblies between August and October 2019 in the course of the anti-extradition bill protests. In May 2021, he was sentenced to two jail terms of 18 months each, to be served concurrently, for inciting and organizing a banned protest on
China's National Day on 1 October 2019.
Ho was attacked by a group of men armed with metal rods at around 7pm on 19 September 2019 as he exited
Tin Hau MTR station. He was followed by a black-clad group and beaten. Soon thereafter, several politicians from the pro-democracy camp – notably
Roy Kwong
Roy Kwong Chun-yu (; born 9 February 1983) is a Hong Kong politician and novelist. He is a member of the Democratic Party and former member of the Yuen Long District Council for Pek Long. He became a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Ko ...
,
Stanley Ho Wai-hang
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* Stanley (1984 film), ''Stanley'' (1984 film), an Australian comedy
* Stanley (1999 film), ''Stanley'' (1 ...
of the Labour Party and
Leung Kai-Qing
Liang (Romanization used in China, ) is an East Asian surname of Chinese surname, Chinese origin. The surname is often transliterated as Leung (in Hong Kong) or Leong (in Macau, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines) according to i ...
were also attacked in the street. The involvement of organised crime was suspected by the
Hong Kong Police Force
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.
Imposition of HK national security legislation
Soon after the June 2020 imposition of the
Hong Kong national security law
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by the
PRC
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Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
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, Ho told ''
The Daily Telegraph
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It was fo ...
'' that he feared that "people like him" may face "difficulties in the times to come" as global banks like
Credit Suisse
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,
HSBC
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,
Julius Baer
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and
UBS
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were in the process of "broadening scrutiny" to "screen clients for political and government ties" and subjecting pro-democrats to "additional diligence requirements". Said Ho: "There’s not much you can do, actually, unless you cease all your financial and banking activities in Hong Kong."
Resignation from civic groups and sentencing
In September 2021, Ho resigned from his leadership positions within the Hong Kong Alliance, the
China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group
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, and the New School for Democracy. The Alliance had come under heavy attack by authorities at that time, with two national security investigations underway against it and its lead members; earlier that month, before his resignations, Ho had pleaded guilty to taking part in or inciting others to participate in the
2020 Tiananmen Massacre vigil. Ho said in court, to applauding spectators, that he and eleven others who pleaded guilty for the same offence were "on the right side of history".
Ho was sentenced on 15 September 2021 to a total of 10 months in prison after having been found guilty of the participation and incitement charges relating to the 2020 vigil. A first bail application by Ho over a charge of subversion of state power in relation to his role in the Hong Kong Alliance was rejected on 20 July 2022, but a second one was granted on 22 August 2022.
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