Hendrick Lui Chi-hang
Political Prisoner
Hendrick Lui Chi-hang 呂智恆
Age at Arrest: 39
Founder, Christians to the World
*Currently in jail.
Hendrick Lui Chi-hang established the Christian-oriented pro-democracy political group, ‘Christians to the World’, in 2016 to encourage Christians in Hong Kong to engage in politics. Lui ran in the District Council elections in 2015, 2016 and 2019.
In January 2021, Lui was arrested for participating in the “35+” unofficial primary elections in July 2020. Lui was also arrested for taking part in pro-democracy demonstrations in 2020, 2019 and 2017. In 2020, Lui was arrested for holding a sign remembering the 7.21 Yuen Long MTR Station Attacks and was fined HK$1,000. In 2019, Lui was arrested after questioning riot police and government workers who were removing posters from the ‘Lennon Wall’ outside the Fanling MTR station. In 2017, Lui was arrested at the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border and taken to Mainland China without going through Mainland China immigration, after conducting a solo protest in which he read out a manifesto on the Lo Wu Hong Kong-Shenzhen border bridge. (Photo: Hendrick Lui’s Facebook Page)
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