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Born in Hong Kong in 1985, Chow Hang-tung is a barrister. She attended the candle light vigil every 4 June with her mother in her early child days in commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre. After secondary school she went on to read physics at Cambridge University. After completing her MA (Geo-physics) in around 2009 she joined an NGO campaigning for China as well as international labour rights. Shortly afterwards she joined the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Democratic Movement in China ("the Hong Kong Alliance") as a volunteer and later became an executive member, subsequently vice-chairperson in 2016. In September 2021 she was arrested and has since been remanded in jail custody for charges under the China-initated National Security Law, all related to her role in the Hong Kong Alliance, including one of conspiracy to subvert the state of the People's Republic of China.