Last verified: September 13, 2026. Former Hong Kong Alliance standing committee member whose 2023 conviction for refusing a national-security police information demand was quashed by Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal on March 6, 2025.
Current classification
RELEASED / CONVICTION OVERTURNED
Case record
Tang was arrested on September 8, 2021. In March 2023 he was sentenced to four and a half months for failing to comply with a police information request under implementation rules associated with the National Security Law. He completed the sentence. On March 6, 2025 the Court of Final Appeal unanimously quashed the conviction, holding that the prosecution had not proved the Alliance was in fact a foreign agent and that redacted evidence had undermined a fair trial.
Evidence and provenance
This record separates present imprisonment from historical detention, bail, completed sentences and overturned convictions. It does not infer a release date from sentence arithmetic.
- Associated Press — convictions quashed
- Reuters — Court of Final Appeal ruling
- SCMP — original conviction record
- Free China Movement — Hong Kong Political Prisoners & the Erosion of Freedom
Related hub: Hong Kong Political Prisoners & the Erosion of Freedom — 1997–Present.