Early life Chu Yiu-ming first lived in mainland China, then settled in Hong Kong. Chu Yiu-ming was baptized in Christianity in Hong Kong and worked in a local
Baptist church in Hong Kong's poor
Chai Wan district to help drug addicts and gang members. There Chu Yiu-ming was also a supporter of the creation of public hospitals as well as helped Chinese dissidents after the
1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
Operation Yellowbird After
1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Chu led a mission dubbed
Operation Yellowbird to secretly move persecuted dissidents from mainland China to places overseas via Hong Kong.
Occupy Central Chu and 8 other activists were convicted on 9 April 2019 for events towards the
Occupy Central and
Umbrella Movement protests in 2014. Chu was given a suspended sentence while his other two allies
Benny Tai and
Chan Kin-man were immediately put in jail for 16 months. "We strive for democracy, because democracy strives for freedom, equality, and universal love. Political freedom is more than loyalty to the state. It professes human dignity. Every single person living in a community possesses unique potentials and powers, capable of contributing to society. Human right is a God-given gift, never to be arbitrarily taken away by any political regime", he said during the sentencing hearing. ==Family==