Tommy Cheung (politician)

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Tommy Cheung Sau-yin

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

 Member of the Yuen Long District Council

In office

1 January 2020 – Present

Preceded by Wilson Wong

Personal details

Born 16 April 1994 (age 27)

Hong Kong

Education Chinese University of Hong Kong

Tommy Cheung Sau-yin (Chinese: 張秀賢; born 16 April 1994) is a Hong Kong

activist and current Yuen Long District Councillor. 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[edit]
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.
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.[5]