Nathan Law

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Nathan Law Kwun-chung on September 17, 2019

Nathan Law Kwun-chung ( Chinese 羅冠聰 / 罗冠聪, Pinyin Luó Guāncōng , Jyutping Lo 4 Gun 3 cung 1 ; born July 13, 1993 in Shenzhen , Guangdong Province , People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese politician from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region .

biography

Law's father came from what was then the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong and his mother came from the People's Republic of China. When Law Kwun-chung was around six years old, the family moved to Hong Kong. There he attended school and began studying cultural studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.

He was chairman of the Lingnan University Students' Union (German: Student Union of Lingnan University) in Tuen Mun and later Secretary General of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (German: Union of Hong Kong Students ). In 2014, Law established himself as a student driving force leader during the 79-day free direct election demonstrations - in 2017 - of Hong Kong's prime minister. Earlier, the news that a committee would pre-select candidates for the office of head of government of the administrative zone had rekindled the discussion about the interpretation of the Sino-British joint declaration on Hong Kong , which guarantees Hong Kong free elections.

In April 2016, Law co-founded with other leaders of the 2014 protests, such as B. Joshua Wong , the political party Demosistō (an artificial word from ancient Greek δῆμος dēmos “people” and Latin sisto “I set up”;香港 眾志 / 香港 众志 - “Hong Kong people's will”) and became its first chairman. In the legislative elections in Hong Kong on September 5, 2016, he was elected to the Legislative Council of the Special Administrative Region. The main goal of the party was to hold a referendum in Hong Kong on Hong Kong's self-determination after the end of the 50-year transition phase with Hong Kong's guaranteed special rights in 2047. Demosistō campaigned for Hong Kong's independence from China until its self-dissolution in June 2020.

In July 2016, Law was found guilty by the Hong Kong judiciary of leading the 2014 Hong Kong protests . A Hong Kong court overturned the verdict in August 2017 and sentenced Law to eight months' imprisonment.

When Law took his oath as a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council on October 12, 2016, there was a scandal. Law spoke the formula of the oath in the given form, but previously gave a short address in which he described the swearing-in ceremony as a "tool of the authorities to suppress public opinion" (in the oath the People's Republic of China must be sworn allegiance). He then protested to the Secretary of the Legislative Council, who oversaw the correct taking of the oath, that the oaths of three MPs ( Yau Wai-ching , Baggio Leung and Edward Yiu ) had been invalidated and refused to return to his MP. The ceremony, which was televised, was then interrupted.

In December 2020, Law applied for asylum in the UK ; he traveled there in the summer of 2020, at the height of the protests in Hong Kong in 2020 . In early April 2021, Law announced that his asylum application had been approved after four months of review. The decision led to political resentment between London and Beijing.

Web links

Commons : Nathan Law  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hong Kong: The Umbrella Revolution . Spiegel Online . September 29, 2014. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  2. ↑ Demosistō: About Us ( English ) Demosistō. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  3. ↑ 2016 Legislative Council Election: Election Results ( English ) The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
  4. ^ Priyanka Gupta: Q&A with Hong Kong's youngest legislator Nathan Law. al Jazeera, September 6, 2016, accessed December 27, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Hong Kong: Guilty verdicts against student leaders latest blow for freedom of expression ( English ) Amnesty International . July 21, 2016. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  6. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Hong Kong: Prison sentences for democracy activists. Retrieved April 9, 2021 .
  7. ↑ Video: Lawmaker Nathan Law protests at oath taking, quotes Gandhi, before clashing with LegCo Sec. Hong Kong Free Press , October 12, 2016, accessed December 27, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Hong Kong activist Nathan Law applies for asylum in Britain. December 21, 2020, accessed December 21, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Law receives asylum in Great Britain . In: tagesschau.de, April 8, 2021 (accessed April 9, 2021).
personal data
SURNAME Law, Nathan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nathan Law Kwun-chung; 羅冠聰 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION hong kong chinese politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Shenzhen , Guangdong Province , People's Republic of China