Hong Kong Police Arrested Lee Cheuk-Yan’s Wife, Former Workers Rights Union Director-General, Suspected of Colluding With Foreign Forces

Elizabeth Tang Yin-ngor (R), secretary-general of the International Domestic Workers Federation, speaks to the media as she leaves the Wan Chai police headquarters in Hong Kong on Mar 11, 2023, after posting bail following her arrest on Mar 9, 2023, on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security. The offense carries up to life imprisonment under a strict national security law introduced by Beijing in 2020 to quell widespread, pro-democracy protests. Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images

On March 9, Elizabeth Tang Yin-ngor, former Secretary-general of the now-dissolved Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU), was arrested on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security. Tang was released on bail on March 11.

Tang is the wife of Lee Cheuk-yan, former chairperson of the now-dissolved Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (HK Alliance),