Last verified: September 13, 2026. former student leader and Umbrella Movement participant
Current classification
HISTORICAL PROSECUTION — received an eight-month prison sentence suspended for two years in April 2019.
Case record
Eason Chung was convicted with the Umbrella Nine and received an eight-month prison term suspended for two years. His case is retained in the political-imprisonment chronology without mislabeling the suspended term as present imprisonment.
Evidence and provenance
This archive separates present custody from historical arrest, conviction, suspended sentence, fine, release or appeal status. It does not project release dates from sentence arithmetic and does not convert an administrative or ordinary criminal conviction into a National Security Law conviction unless the record supports that characterization.
- Amnesty International — Umbrella Movement leaders sentencing
- Free China Movement — Hong Kong Political Prisoners & the Erosion of Freedom, 1997–Present
Related hub: Hong Kong Political Prisoners & the Erosion of Freedom — 1997–Present.