Tanya Chan — Hong Kong Case Profile & Archive

Last verified: September 13, 2026. former legislator and Umbrella Movement participant

Current classification

HISTORICAL PROSECUTION — sentenced in June 2019 to eight months’ imprisonment suspended for two years; not imprisoned under that sentence.

Case record

Tanya Chan was the last of the Umbrella Nine to be sentenced. On June 10, 2019 she received an eight-month prison sentence suspended for two years. Amnesty International said the conviction arose from peaceful democratic advocacy and called for all nine convictions to be quashed.

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.

Related hub: Hong Kong Political Prisoners & the Erosion of Freedom — 1997–Present.