Jimmy Sham

Jimmy Sham
岑子杰
Sham in 2019
Member of the Sha Tin District Council
In office
1 January 2020 – 8 July 2021
Preceded byWong Yue-hon
ConstituencyLek Yuen
Convener of Civil Human Rights Front[1]
In office
October 2018 – October 2020
Preceded bySammy Ip
Succeeded byFigo Chan Ho-wun
In office
October 2015 – October 2016
Preceded byDaisy Chan [zh]
Succeeded byAu Nok-hin
Vice-chairman of the League of Social Democrats
Assumed office
2020
Preceded byJaco Chow
Personal details
Born (1987-06-29) 29 June 1987 (age 37)
British Hong Kong
Political partyLeague of Social Democrats
EducationHong Kong Community College
Chinese name
Chinese岑子杰
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinCén Zǐjié
Bopomofoㄘㄣˊ ㄗˇ ㄐㄧㄝˊ
Wade–GilesTsʻen2 Tzu3-chʻieh2
Tongyong PinyinCén Zǐh-jié
IPA[tsʰə̌n tsɹ̩̀.tɕjě]
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingsam4 zi2 git6

Jimmy Sham Tsz-kit (Chinese: 岑子杰; Jyutping: sam4 zi2 git6; born 29 June 1987) is a Hong Kong pro-democracy and LGBT rights activist. He served as a convener for the pro-democracy organisation Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) until October 2020[1][2] and serves as a secretary for the LGBT rights organisation Rainbow of Hong Kong.[3] He is a longtime member of the League of Social Democrats. In 2019 he was elected to the Sha Tin District Council by residents of Lek Yuen constituency, but he resigned from this position in July 2021 amidst a government crackdown on pro-democracy councillors.[4]

  1. ^ a b "民陣換屆 陳皓桓接替岑子杰任召集人:續為民主而戰". HK01 (in Chinese). 22 October 2020. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  2. ^ "兩度捱義氣做民陣召集人 岑子杰:搞遊行,要放下人數包袱". HKCNews. 29 June 2019. Archived from the original on 11 August 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  3. ^ Wong, Sherman (13 January 2013). "〔人物特寫〕為公義而反叛的同志 — 岑子杰" (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). VJMedia. Archived from the original on 22 June 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  4. ^ "社民連岑子杰、曾健成辭任區議員:失議席也不失理想和尊嚴". The Stand News (in Chinese). 8 July 2021. Archived from the original on 6 August 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.