Last verified: September 13, 2026. Former Hong Kong Alliance secretary sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment in December 2021 for the banned 2020 June Fourth vigil; this record is retained as historical imprisonment, not automatically as current custody.
Current classification
FORMER PRISONER / HISTORICAL JUNE FOURTH CASE
Case chronology
Richard Tsoi pleaded guilty in November 2021 to charges arising from the unauthorized June Fourth vigil in 2020. On December 13, 2021 he received a one-year custodial sentence. The archive records the verified sentence while avoiding a current-prisoner label without newer custody evidence.
Evidence and provenance
This record distinguishes historical imprisonment from current custody. Later release, bail, overturned-sentence or exile information supersedes an older static prisoner label; sentence arithmetic is not used to invent release dates.
- The Standard — December 2021 vigil sentencing
- The Standard — November 2021 guilty pleas
- Free China Movement — Hong Kong Political Prisoners & the Erosion of Freedom
Related hub: Hong Kong Political Prisoners & the Erosion of Freedom — 1997–Present.