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Ivan Lam | |||||||||||||||||||
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Lam in 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Chairperson of Demosistō | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 12 May 2018 – 30 June 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Deputy | Cheng Ka Long | ||||||||||||||||||
| Secretary general | Joshua Wong | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Nathan Law | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Party dissolved | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Lam Long-yin 18 July 1994 British Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | Independent (since 2020) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Other political affiliations | Scholarism (2011–2016) Demosistō (2016–2020) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Ivan Lam Long-yin[1] (Chinese: 林朗彥, born 18 July 1994) is a Hong Kong political activist who, together with Joshua Wong, established the Hong Kong student activist group, Scholarism, in May 2011.[2][3][4][5] In 2018, he replaced Nathan Law as the chairperson of Demosisto.[6][7] In December 2020, Lam was sentenced to seven months in prison for his role during the 2019 protests. Along with him, activists Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow were also convicted.[5][8][9] On 12 April 2021, he was released from prison.[5][10]
On 5 July 2023, Lam was again arrested, along with three others, according to local media. The group was suspected to have provided financial aid to self-exiled activists, and to have published seditious material on social media.[11]