楊岳橋

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Alvin Yeung Ngok-kiu, born in Hong Kong on 5 June 1981, is a practising barrister and politician, a member of the Civic Party who represented the New Territories East geographical constituency in the Legislative Council and later led the party. He emigrated to Canada with his parents at a young age, moving to Toronto in 1994, and graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a bachelor's degree in political science. He returned to Hong Kong in 2007 and was called to the bar in 2009. He continued his studies, obtaining a master of laws in constitutional and administrative law from Peking University and a master of laws from the University of Bristol, and completed the postgraduate certificate in laws at the University of Hong Kong. In 2012 he gave up his Canadian nationality to stand for the Civic Party in the New Territories East geographical constituency but was not elected. On 28 February 2016 he won the New Territories East by-election with 160,880 votes, filling the seat vacated by the resignation of Alan Leong, and he was returned again in the general election that September, serving until 2020. He later became leader of the Civic Party and was one of the party's younger figures, following the rule of law, the judicial system and youth issues. In 2021 he was arrested in connection with the pro-democracy primary case and later charged. On 19 November 2024 he was sentenced to five years and one month in prison, and was released after completing his term in 2026.