Sentenced in 2018 for violence as part of a demonstration, he was one of the leaders of the umbrella movement in 2014. The authorities announced his release.
Le Monde with AFP
An activist for the independence of Hong Kong, Edward Leung Tin-Kei, who was the author of the slogan of the Grand Movement for the 2019 democracy, was released from prison Wednesday, January 18, announced the Hong Kong authorities. .
Edward Leung Tin-Kei, 30, had been imprisoned in 2018 for an organized event two years earlier. It is at the origin of the slogan today forbidden “Free Hong Kong, revolution of our time”, that the protesters have taken back as a cry of rallying against the authoritarian governance of China.
The Revolt of fish pellets
Figure of the independence movement, he had been sentenced in 2018 to six years in prison for “actively participated” at riots two years earlier. The police, charged that day to disperse sellers to the SKI in the Mongkok district, had to face hundreds of protesters who came to defend this Lunar New Year’s tradition and denouncing the disappearance of local customs under the influence of Beijing. Qualified as “revolt of fish pellets” with reference to a traditional and popular dish of the region, these riots had made 130 wounded including 90 policemen.
Edward Leung Tin-Kei was one of the leaders of the “Localist” movement, nourished with a strong anti-sized feeling, which led the “umbrella movement” in the fall of 2014. For three months, thousands of Hong Kong manifests to demand from Beijing a more democratic system. In vain. Edward Leungtin-Kei, who had hoped to be elected with his Hong Kong party Indigenous, at the legislative of 2016, had finally been prohibited from introducing themselves.