11 Facts About Wong Yeung-tat

Wong Yeung-tat is a Hong Kong social activist and the founder and former leader of radical populist group Civic Passion.

Wong Yeung-tat joined Television Broadcasts Limited and became a screenwriter.

Wong Yeung-tat later quit TVB and started his career as a novelist in 2004.

Wong Yeung-tat became active in politics in 2010 when he began to host online radio shows for Hong Kong Reporter, an internet radio station affiliated with the democratic party People Power.

Wong Yeung-tat quickly rose as the protege of democrat legislator Raymond Wong Yuk-man.

In February 2012, Wong Yeung-tat helped found activist group, Civic Passion.

Wong Yeung-tat ran for the Legislative Council in the 2012 LegCo election as a People Power candidate.

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

Wong Yeung-tat had been active at the protest site in Mong Kok during the 2014 Hong Kong Protests.

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 Yeung-tat comparing mainland immigration to a "colonization of Hong Kong".

In September 2016, Wong Yeung-tat 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.