32 Facts About Nathan Law

Nathan Law Kwun-chung is a Hong Kong activist and politician.

Nathan Law was one of the student leaders during the 79-day Umbrella Movement in 2014.

Nathan Law is the founding and former chairman of Demosisto, a new political party derived from the 2014 protests.

On 4 September 2016, at the age of 23, Law was elected to serve as a legislator for Hong Kong Island, making him the youngest lawmaker in the history of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong police had ordered the arrest of Nathan Law for inciting secession and collusion, and issued a HK$1 million bounty for his apprehension in July 2023.

In March 2021, Nathan Law was named a Pritzker Fellow at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics.

In July 2023, Hong Kong police offered HKD 1 million bounties for information leading to the capture of eight prominent democracy activists based abroad including Nathan Law and wanted for national security crimes.

Nathan Law was born on 13 July 1993 in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, to a Hong Kong father and a Mainland mother.

Nathan Law moved to Hong Kong with his mother for a family reunion when he was around six years old.

Nathan Law received his secondary education at HKFEW Wong Cho Bau Secondary School and majored in Cultural Studies at Lingnan University.

Nathan Law graduated a year later with the master's degree.

Nathan Law was active in student activism and participated the 2013 Hong Kong dock strike.

Nathan Law joined and became the chairman of the Representative Council of the Lingnan University Students' Union and was the committee member of the Hong Kong Federation of Students.

Nathan Law later became the acting president of the Lingnan University Students' Union.

Nathan Law was one of three student leaders at the heart of the Occupy protests whose Home Return Permits were revoked and were banned from flying to Beijing in an attempt to press their demands for genuine universal suffrage in November 2014.

Nathan Law won with 37 votes from the 53 student representatives from seven tertiary institutions qualified to vote in the annual election in March 2015.

Nathan Law's secretaryship was highlighted by the disaffiliation crisis that saw localist camp students from member institutions trigger referendums to break away from the HKFS which was accused of making hasty decisions with little transparency during the Umbrella Revolution.

Nathan Law campaigned against the referendum at the LU as the acting president of the LUSU which the referendum to break away from HKFS was defeated.

However, three student unions of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Baptist University and City University of Hong Kong quit the federation in their referendums under Nathan Law's secretaryship, following the Hong Kong University Students' Union exit in February 2015.

Nathan Law expressed his interest in running in Hong Kong Island in the 2016 Legislative Council election.

Nathan Law received 50,818 votes, the second highest among all candidates for the six-seat Hong Kong Island constituency and was elected.

Nathan Law was elected alongside allies Lau Siu-lai and Eddie Chu.

At age 23, Nathan Law was the youngest-ever person to become a Hong Kong legislator.

Nathan Law made an opening statement saying that the oath ceremony had already become the "political tool" of the regime, adding "you can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind".

Nathan Law was sent to the medium-security Tong Fuk Correctional Institution on Lantau Island.

Nathan Law stepped out of the Court of Final Appeal doors with his girlfriend, Tiffany Yuen.

Nathan Law was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2020 and was the winner of the reader's poll.

Nathan Law dropped out from the pro-democracy primaries and days later announced he was in London.

Nathan Law met with US secretary of state Mike Pompeo during his visit to the United Kingdom in the same month, discussing the situation in Hong Kong, especially the possibility of Beijing's "meddling" in upcoming legislative elections, as well as human rights in Tibet and Xinjiang.

On 7 April 2021, Nathan Law announced on Twitter that he has been granted asylum in the UK.

On 10 December 2021, the Hong Kong government released a statement which claimed that Nathan Law, accused in the statement of being "defamatory" and "slandering", had skipped bail.

On 12 June 2024, the Hong Kong government revoked the passport of Nathan Law, exercising powers that it had been granted under the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance.