Ventus Lau

Ventus Lau in the 2020 Hong Kong pro-democracy primaries.
Ventus Lau
Traditional Chinese劉頴匡
Simplified Chinese刘颕匡
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLiú Yǐngkuāng
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpinglau4 wing6 hong1

Ventus Lau Wing-hong (Chinese: 劉頴匡; born 8 October 1993) is a Hong Kong politician. He is the convenor of the Shatin Community Network and the founding convenor of the Community Network Union, an alliance of the localist community groups in different districts. He came to media attention in the 2018 New Territories East by-election and his candidacy was disqualified by the returning officer for his previous pro-Hong Kong independence stance. For his participation in the 2020 Hong Kong pro-democracy primaries he was part of a mass arrest on national security charges in January 2021 and remains in jail as of October 2021.