Wong Yeung-tat

Wong Yeung-tat (Chinese: 黃洋達; born 29 May 1979) is a Hong Kong social activist and the founder and former leader of radical populist group Civic Passion.

Before he ran for the election, he took the initiative to waive bail and serve his sentence for his conviction of gate-crashing a public forum at the Hong Kong Science Museum protesting against a government proposal of the Legislative Council (Amendment) Bill 2012 in September 2011, as he would not have been eligible for candidacy if his prison term had still been pending.

[4] On 11 December 2014, Wong was arrested at his home on suspicion of multiple counts of unauthorized assembly, according to his wife Chan Sau-wai.

[5] The Civic Passion group had made the Mong Kok base their stronghold as the protests began to be showing signs of internal dissent, advocating for escalation, with Wong comparing mainland immigration to a "colonization of Hong Kong".

[1] In September 2016, Wong resigned as the leader of Civic Passion, saying that he did so out of taking responsibility for the failure of the election alliance that Civic Passion had formed with the Proletariat Political Institute and Hong Kong Resurgence Order for the 2016 Legislative Council election.