Ivan Lam

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Agnes Chow, Ivan Lam and Joshua Wong stand in front of press microphones.
Left to right: Agnes Chow, Ivan Lam and Joshua Wong (2020)

Ivan Lam Long-Yin ( Chinese林朗 彥, born July 18, 1994 ) is a student who, together with Joshua Wong , founded the activist group Scholarism in Hong Kong on May 29, 2011 . In mid-2018 he took over from Nathan Law as chairman of the Demosistō party .

In 2011, Lam ran unsuccessfully with Joshua Wong in the student union's cabinet election. At that time, they formed a group that opposed the introduction of a national curriculum in Hong Kong schools, calling it "brainwashing."

During the 2014 umbrella movement , he helped protests against the limitation of direct elections to the government board. In the same year he stormed the Legislative Council in Hong Kong with other demonstrators during a protest against a government development project in the New Territories . He was then sentenced to 13 months in prison in August 2017 and released on bail in November 2017 .

In early December 2020, he was sentenced to seven months in prison after an admission of guilt. He was charged with calling for an unauthorized demonstration against police violence at Wan Chai Police Headquarters in Hong Kong on June 21, 2019 , together with Agnes Chow and Joshua Wong . It is his third sentence.

He studied cultural studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong , but dropped out after a year and switched to the Hong Kong Art School .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Meet Ivan Lam - the optimistic new Demosisto chairman. June 6, 2018, accessed December 3, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b Austin Ramzy, Tiffany May: Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow Are Sentenced to Prison Over Hong Kong Protest . In: The New York Times . December 2, 2020, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed December 3, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Holmes Chan, Georg Fahrion and Bernhard Zand: Convicted Hong Kong Activists: Young, Angry, Locked Up. In: Spiegel Online. December 2, 2020, accessed December 3, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Activists in Hong Kong sentenced to prison terms. In: Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com). December 2, 2020, accessed on December 3, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ Rachel Cheung: Hong Kong: The city becomes a prison. In: The time . November 26, 2020, accessed December 3, 2020 .