1. Tam Tak-chi, called "Fast Beat" in his radio career, is a former Hong Kong radio presenter, actor and currently a social activist.
23 Facts About Tam Tak-chi
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Tam Tak-chi was the vice chairman of the pro-democracy political party People Power.
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Tam Tak-chi has been active in the social activism since then.
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Tam Tak-chi joined the Citizens' Radio in 2009 and became an online radio show host.
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Tam Tak-chi joined the Hong Kong People Reporter, an online radio platform founded by Stephen Shiu.
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Tam Tak-chi joined the Power Voters, a group of activists who were disenfranchised by the Democratic Party compromise with the Beijing authorities over the constitutional reform package and ran against the Democratic Party in the 2011 District Council election.
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Tam Tak-chi joined the People Power in 2013 after Wong Yuk-man quit the party.
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Tam Tak-chi took a leading supporting role in the Occupy Central with Love and Peace movement initiated by legal scholar Benny Tai.
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Tam Tak-chi stayed in the occupation zone in Mong Kok throughout the protests in 2014.
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In October, Tam Tak-chi refused Stephen Shiu's demand of ending the Mong Kok occupation which led to Tam Tak-chi's departure of Shiu's online radio platform Memehk in 2016.
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Tam Tak-chi ran in the elections in several levels on many occasions.
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On 24 May 2020, Tam Tak-chi was arrested opposite Sogo Hong Kong in Causeway Bay for participating in illegal assembly to protest against the national security law.
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Tam Tak-chi ran in the 2020 pro-democracy primaries for the 2020 Legislative Council election in Kowloon East and received 10,980 votes, ranking the fourth place and thus secured the nomination to run in the general election.
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On 6 September 2020, Tam Tak-chi was arrested again, for "uttering seditious words".
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Senior Superintendent Li Kwai-wah said that in speeches made across Hong Kong in the preceding summer months, Tam Tak-chi had been "inciting hatred and contempt against the government".
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Li said that the arrest had been carried out by national security police due to initial suspicion that Tam Tak-chi had violated the Hong Kong national security law, but that the sedition laws from the Crimes Ordinance under which Tam Tak-chi was arrested had been determined to be "more suitable" to the case.
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On 21 October 2020, Tam Tak-chi asked the court to dismiss the sedition charges against him alleging that the colonial-era charges violate the Basic Law.
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Tam Tak-chi said the indictment breached international human rights covenants adopted by the United Nations.
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On 6 January 2021, Tam Tak-chi was among 55 pan-democrats arrested for allegedly violating the national security law over their participation in the pro-democracy primaries of 2020.
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Tam Tak-chi was accused of "subverting state power", and was already in prison on sedition charges.
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Tam Tak-chi sent the letter of quitting the People Power in jail on 6 December 2021 over intra-party rift.
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On 2 March 2022, Tam Tak-chi was found guilty under 11 charges including "uttering seditious words", and acquitted of three charges.
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An appeal against the sentence that Tam Tak-chi launched in July 2023 was rejected on 7 March 2024.