Scholarism was a Hong Kong pro-democracy student activist group active in the fields of Hong Kong's education policy,political reform and youth policy. It was reported to have 200 members in May 2015.
Civic Passion was a radical,populist,localist,and nativist political party in Hong Kong. Founded by Wong Yeung-tat as an activist group in 2012,it held strong localist views and opposed the involvement of the Chinese government in the governance of Hong Kong. In the 2016 Legislative Council election,the Civic Passion formed an electoral alliance with Wong Yuk-man's Proletariat Political Institute and Chin Wan's Hong Kong Resurgence Order. Cheng Chung-tai became the only candidate of the alliance elected to the legislature and subsequently took over as the leader of the Civic Passion. After the election,Cheng reorganised the group into a political party and pulled out from the social activism. From December 2020 to August 2021,it was the only opposition party in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
The 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was held on 4 September 2016 for the 6th Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo). A total of 70 members,35 from geographical constituencies (GCs) and 35 from functional constituencies (FCs),were returned. The election came after the rejection of the 2016/2017 constitutional reform proposals which suggested the electoral method for the 2016 Legislative Council remains unchanged.
Leticia Lee See-yin was an outspoken pro-Beijing figure in Hong Kong. She held several positions at various political and activist organisations in Hong Kong.
The 2016 New Territories East by-election was held on 28 February 2016 after the incumbent Legislative Councillor Ronny Tong Ka-wah of New Territories East quit the Civic Party and resigned from the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo),effective on 1 October 2015.
Alvin Cheng Kam-mun,also known as "Brother Four Eyes",is a Hong Kong political activist,a member of Civic Passion,and founder of student activist organization Student Front. In 2014,he led a rally in support of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement during the G20 Brisbane summit.
Youngspiration is a localist political party in Hong Kong founded in 2015. It emerged after the 2014 Hong Kong protests with an agenda of protection of Hong Kong people's interests and culture against the interference of the Chinese government and advocated the "Hong Kong nation's right to self-determination". The group wants a self-determination referendum in 2020 with the results effective in 2047,when China's "one country,two systems" promise ends. As of 2016,the convenor of the group is Baggio Leung.
Civil unrest occurred in Mong Kok,Hong Kong from the night of 8 February 2016 until the following morning. The incident escalated from the government's crackdown on unlicensed street hawkers during the Chinese New Year holidays. Eventual violent clashes broke out between police and protesters,resulting in injuries on both sides.
Edward Leung Tin-kei is a Hong Kong politician and activist. He is the former spokesperson of Hong Kong Indigenous,a localist group. He advocates Hong Kong independence,and coined the slogan "Liberate Hong Kong,revolution of our times" during the 2016 by-election,which was later widely used in 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests.
Ray Wong Toi-yeung is a Hong Kong activist. He founded the localist camp Hong Kong Indigenous with other activists who were dissatisfied with the efficacy of Hong Kong's mainstream democratic movement during the 2014 Hong Kong protests. He took an active part in the Mong Kok civil unrest on Lunar New Year's Day 2016 and was arrested later that month.
In Hong Kong,localism is a political movement centered on the preservation of the city's autonomy and local culture. The Hong Kong localist movement encompasses a variety of groups with different goals,but all of them oppose the perceived growing encroachment of the Chinese central government on the city's management of its own political,economic,and social affairs. Issues of concern to localist camp include land use and development,cultural and heritage conservation on the left,parallel trading and the increasing number of mainland immigrants and tourists on the right. On the autonomy of Hong Kong,many of them advocate the Hong Kong people's right to self-determination,while milder elements advocate for greater autonomy while remaining part of China,and the most radical call for return to British rule or full independence as a sovereign state. Certain right-wing localist camp also advocate for a more aggressive and militant approach in defending popular interests.
Localist groups,or localist and self-determination groups,are the various groups with localist ideologies in Hong Kong. It emerged from post-80s social movements in the late 2000s which centred on the preservation of the city's autonomy and local lifestyles and opposed the perceived growing encroachment of the Beijing government on the city's management of its own political,economic,and social affairs.
A localist political alliance was formed by 3 Hong Kong organisations –Civic Passion,Proletariat Political Institute and Hong Kong Resurgence Order –to field candidates to contest the 2016 legislative election. Without an official name,the alliance is informally called Yit Po Shing in Chinese,taking one word from each of the member organisation's name or ideology. The alliance's common platform is "Creating a de facto referendum in five constituencies;allow all citizens to participate in the creation of constitution".
Regine Yau Wai-ching is a former Hong Kong politician and former member of the localist camp Youngspiration. She was elected to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong as a member for Kowloon West in the 2016 Legislative Council election,but has since been disqualified pursuant to a judgment delivered by the High Court on 15 November 2016. As the youngest female parliament member in the Hong Kong history being elected on the age of 25,she is acclaimed to be a "daughter of Hong Kong" by the Chinese historian and political commentator Zhongjing Liu for her pro-democracy statesmanship and the advocacy for the self-determination of the Hong Kong national identity.
ALLinHK was an electoral alliance formed by six groups which emerged from the 2014 Hong Kong protests and consists of Youngspiration,Kowloon East Community,Tin Shui Wai New Force,Cheung Sha Wan Community Establishment Power,Tsz Wan Shan Constructive Power and Tuen Mun Community. It was formed to improve prospects in the 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election with the slogan of "Hong Kong nation's self-determination".
Sixtus "Baggio" Leung Chung-hang is a Hong Kong activist and politician. He is the convenor of Youngspiration,a localist political group in Hong Kong that leans towards Hong Kong independence,and is also leader and spokesperson of the pro-independence Hong Kong National Front. He was elected to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong as a member for New Territories East in the 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election. Triggered by his actions to make an independence political statement during the oath-taking ceremony,he faced a legal challenge from the government and was later stripped of his office by the court on 15 November 2016.
The Hong Kong Legislative Council members' oath-taking controversy was a series of events surrounding the oaths of office of a dozen pro-democracy and localist camp members-elect of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo) on 12 October 2016 which have resulted in the disqualification of six members,Sixtus "Baggio" Leung and Yau Wai-ching of Youngspiration,who were unseated by the court on 15 November 2016,and Leung Kwok-hung,Nathan Law,Yiu Chung-yim and Lau Siu-lai on 14 July 2017.
Ventus Lau Wing-hong is a Hong Kong politician. He is the convenor of the Shatin Community Network and the founding convenor of the Community Network Union,an alliance of the localist community groups in different districts. He came to media attention in the 2018 New Territories East by-election and his candidacy was disqualified by the returning officer for his previous pro-Hong Kong independence stance. For his participation in the 2020 Hong Kong pro-democracy primaries he was part of a mass arrest on national security charges in January 2021 and remains in jail as of October 2021.
"Liberate Hong Kong,revolution of our times" is a slogan used by social movements in Hong Kong. The slogan was first used in 2016 by Hong Kong Indigenous spokesman Edward Leung as his campaign theme and slogan for the 2016 New Territories East by-election. He emphasised that anyone could take part in innovation and change regardless of age,hence the use of the phrase "revolution of our times". In the legislative election held later that year,Youngspiration,which was cooperating with Hong Kong Indigenous as Leung was banned from running by the Electoral Affairs Commission,also used the slogan for their campaign.
This is a list of protests in January 2020 that were part of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. The protests continued to be buoyed up by the success of the pan-democrats at the November 2019 District Council Elections,but also continued to feel the effects of the mass arrests at the November 2019 siege of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. With the notable exceptions of protests on New Year's Day and on 19 January,protests remained smaller-scale but took place almost every day. It appeared that police,under its new chief Chris Tang,had changed its tactics to round up violent protesters early,aiming to avoid the spiralling into evening violence that had occurred in many of the earlier protests.
