Hui Chi-fung

Hui won with 1618 votes, 299 votes more than the 1319 votes achieved by his opponent, Karen Wong.

Ted Hui Chi-fung (born 8 June 1982) is a Hong Kong politician.

He formerly represented the Chung Wan constituency in the Central and Western District Council, and formerly he was the Legislative Councillor for the Hong Kong Island constituency.

In 2006, Hui earned his bachelor's degree in law with honors from the City University of Hong Kong.

Hui has blogged about his two children, and promoted family-friendly policies.

In the 2011 District Council elections, Hui successfully succeeded veteran Yuen Bun-keung's Central and Western District Council seat in the Chung Wan constituency which covers the Central area.

In 2014, he was ejected from a meeting of the council's working group on civic education when protesting the council's decision to grant HK$150,000 (of a HK$250,000 total grant) to pro-Beijing groups.

Hui complained that there was a conflict of interest because several of the councillors were members of or advisers to the recipients.

In the process of ejection, he was injured by council security personnel, resulting in his party's demand for an apology from the district office.

In 2015, when the party's central committee member Wong Sing-chi publicly called on pan-democrats to back Beijing's restrictive reform model for the 2017 Chief Executive election, Hui led a call for the party to investigate whether Wong had violated any of its internal rules.

Wong was expelled from the party.

Hui has been vocal on environmental issues, education, human rights and democracy.

He was elected a lawmaker for the Hong Kong Island constituency in 2016.

Hui first caught media attention for his protests in the council.

In the Democratic Party's intra-party primary for candidacy in Hong Kong Island in the 2016 Legislative Council Elections, Hui won against Wilfred Chong Wing-fai and officially assumed office on 1 October 2016.

Hui was considered to be quite radical within the Democratic Party.

He opposed the party's meetings with Beijing officials.

He played a major role in pushing for the banning of ivory trade in Hong Kong in 2018.

Hui showed high concern about the erosion of freedoms in Hong Kong and called for the international community to speak up for Hong Kong.

In April 2018, Hui was under police investigation for snatching a Security Bureau executive officer's phone and taking it to a Legislative Council Complex toilet on 24 April 2018.

The Democratic Party suspended the lawmaker and criticized him for seriously tarnishing the reputation of lawmakers.

Hui later apologized to the executive officer and admitted that his action was "not appropriate".

Hui, however, claimed that the employee had been "recording the entry and exit time of lawmakers", including himself, into a meeting room and the Legco complex.

He alleged that there was a breach of the privacy ordinance.

Hui was charged with three offences, including common assault, dishonest access to a computer and obstructing a public officer in the execution of their duties.

Hui pleaded not guilty to all three charges.

On 4 October 2019, Hui submitted his nomination to run for the 2019 Hong Kong local elections in the A01 Central District.

In May 2019, Hui was found guilty of one count of common assault on a senior executive officer.

Fearing prosecution by the Government of Hong Kong, he announced his self-exile in Denmark and withdrawal from the Democratic Party in December 2020.

Hui was born in Hong Kong and raised in Tuen Mun.

He received his education in Canada and Hong Kong.

In July 2020, Hui faces a censure motion at the Legislative Council for phone snatching.

On 28 May 2020, Hui disrupted the second reading of the National Anthem Bill in the Legislative Council by dropping a container containing rotten plant matter inside the chamber.

A fellow lawmaker was taken to hospital after being exposed to the smell.

On 4 June 2020, Hui and two other lawmakers, Eddie Chu and Raymond Chan, were charged with hindering the business of the Legislative Council and violating the Powers and Privileges Ordinance, with Hui having dropped foul-smelling liquid during the LegCo session on that day.

Hui was subsequently fined HK$52,000.

The Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), during its campaign against Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill, organized a New Year's Day march on 1 January 2020, in which CHRF said more than 1.03 million citizens participated.

At around 7:00 pm, police water cannon trucks fired water cannons in Causeway Bay, and raised black warning flags and fired tear gas in Yee Wo Street.

Hui was in the middle of a line between reporters and the police, trying to intervene as police officers were rounding up nearly 100 protesters on neighbouring Hennessy Road.

As Hui called on to police to remain calm, a riot police officer pointed a pepper spray bottle at him at close range, and knocked off the protective goggles that Hui was wearing.