Martin Lee Chu-ming (李柱銘) — Hong Kong Democracy Lawyer

Barrister, founding chairman of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party, and veteran democracy advocate.

Current status

Historical political-prosecution record; not classified here as currently imprisoned.

Case baseline

Arrested in 2020 over an August 2019 assembly and later given an 11-month prison term suspended for 24 months.

Evidence and provenance

This profile uses a named Hong Kong Watch political-prisoner record as its baseline. Status is not projected from sentence arithmetic; any later release, appeal, transfer or renewed detention must be independently verified before changing the current classification.

Hong Kong Watch — source profile · Hong Kong Political Prisoners & Freedom Timeline

FCM status review: September 14, 2026.