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

Yuen Long District Council The Yuen Long District Council () is the district council for the Yuen Long District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Yuen Long District currently consists of 45 members, of which the district is divided into 39 constituencies, ...

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

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 ...

(HKFS).

Biography

He was a core member of

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. 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. 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

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, 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, due to health reasons because he was diagnosed with liver tumor.

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