# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-cheuk-yan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:20:55.414Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-cheuk-yan"
name: "Lee Cheuk-yan"
slug: "lee-cheuk-yan"
description: "Lee Cheuk-yan is a Hong Kong politician and social activist. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1995 to 2016, when he lost his seat. He represented the Kowloon West and the Manufacturing constituencies briefly in 1995 and had been representing the New Territories West constituency from 1998 to 2016. He is a former trade union leader, former General Secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, as well as former chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. He has been jailed since April 2021 for his role in the Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests, having been sentenced for organizing two unauthorized assemblies; for an alleged offence of subversion of the state, no trial date has been set as of February 2024."
tagline: "Hong Kong politician (born 1957)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lee_Cheuk_Yan_at_Alliance_for_True_Democracy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1957-02-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.64
  momentum:             5.135313531353136
  historical:           5.349214666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Cheuk-yan"
    title: "Lee Cheuk-yan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%83_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "لى تشيوك يان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Cheuk-yan"
    title: "Lee Cheuk-yan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E5%8D%93%E4%BA%BA"
    title: "李卓人"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Cheuk-yan"
    title: "Lee Cheuk-yan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E5%8D%93%E4%BA%BA"
    title: "李卓人"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23641"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump