September 2026 Hong Kong Alliance sentence
Current status: IMPRISONED — 7 years sentence in the Alliance inciting-subversion case. He remains imprisoned. On September 11, 2026 the court sentenced him to seven years for inciting subversion in the Hong Kong Alliance case. Reuters reported he plans to appeal.
Research status: Details pending / research in progress.
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Current custody and release / sentence-completion status
Current continuous custody start: Imprisoned continuously since 2021-04-16 on earlier assembly sentences. He was arrested in the current national-security case on 2021-09-08 while already imprisoned and charged on 2021-09-09.
Judgment status: Convicted on 2026-08-21 of inciting subversion. On 2026-09-11, Lee Cheuk-yan (李卓人) was sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment. Reuters and Associated Press independently reported the sentence; an appeal was reported/planned.
Release / sentence-completion date: UNDER VERIFICATION. A release/completion date is not projected from sentence length alone until time-served credit, interaction with earlier assembly sentences, concurrent/consecutive treatment, appellate changes and other operative orders are verified.
Evidence basis: The continuous-imprisonment start is documented in contemporaneous sentencing coverage; current-case dates appear in a UN Special Procedures joint communication and current court reporting.
Last verified: 2026-09-11.
Verified profile
Lee Cheuk-yan is a Hong Kong trade-union and democracy leader, former chairperson of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, and long-time organizer of June Fourth remembrance. Amnesty International documents his detention from September 2021 and prosecution for Alliance activities.
Amnesty reported in August 2026 that Hong Kong’s High Court convicted Lee Cheuk-yan (李卓人) and Chow Hang-tung (鄒幸彤) of “inciting subversion of state power.” On 11 September 2026, Lee was sentenced to 7 years and Chow to 7 years 3 months. The case record now treats sentencing as complete but keeps release/completion dates under verification pending sentence interaction, time-served credit and any appeals.
Verified sources
Research still pending
Alliance founding/leadership records; trade-union leadership chronology; 1989/Hong Kong support activity; vigil speeches; court filings, judgment and sentencing; prison communications; multilingual media, video, audio and photos.
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