Lee Cheuk-yan

Infobox_Officeholder | name=Lee Cheuk Yan
李卓人

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caption=Mr. Lee Cheuk Yan
nationality=China
birth_date= 12 February, 1957
birth_place=Chaoyang, Guangdong
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death_place=
spouse=
party=Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions
ancestry = Chaoyang, Guangdong
occupation = Legislative Councillor
Trade unionists

Lee Cheuk Yan (Chinese: 李卓人, born 12 February 1957 in Chaoyang, Guangdong) is the member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Geographical constituency, New Territories West) and the General Secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions. He emigrated from Mainland China to Hong Kong in 1959. He graduated from the The University of Hong Kong with a bachelor degree in civil engineering.

Since his university days, he has been a labour and pro-democracy activist. During the student-led Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he collected donations from Hong Kong and travelled to Beijing to hand-over the funds to student protesters at Tiananmen Square. He was detained by the authorities there and made to sign a confession letter before being allowed to return to Hong Kong.

Since the events of 1989, Lee has remained a standing committee member of the pro-democracy group, The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China. In 1995, Mr Lee was elected unopposed in a byelection of the Legislative Council. He won and was re-elected four times since then. Mr Lee has been a lawmaker for more than a decade, except a brief period during 1997 and 1998, when the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the People's Republic of China, and the Legislative Council temporarily became a Provisional Legislative Council which was filled with people indirectly hand picked by Beijing.

Mr Lee is married to Elizabeth Tang, the chairperson of the Hong Kong People's Alliance on WTO.

External links

* [http://www.legco.gov.hk/general/english/members/yr00-04/lcy.htm Hong Kong Legislative Council's website on Lee Cheuk-yan]
* [http://www.labour.org.hk/ Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions' election campaign website]