李柱銘

繁體中文

李柱銘（1938年出世），係香港資深大律師，亦係民主黨創黨主席。佢係國民黨將領李膺高一個仔，早年喺英國同香港取得大律師資格，1979年獲委任為御用大律師（後改稱資深大律師）。1985年獲委任為基本法起草委員會委員，但因為1989年支持北京學生民主運動而被解除職務。1985年至2008年間，李柱銘一直擔任立法局／立法會議員，先後透過法律界功能界別同地方直選當選。佢係香港民主同盟（後來同匯點合併為民主黨）嘅創黨主席，1994年至2002年擔任民主黨主席。長期以嚟，李柱銘被視為「香港民主之父」，一直爭取全面普選同維護基本法下嘅法治。2011年，佢獲美國費城國家憲法中心頒發「自由獎章」。

English

Martin Lee Chu-ming, born in 1938, is a Hong Kong barrister and founding chairman of the Democratic Party. The son of Nationalist general Lee Ying-kao, he was called to the Bar in England and Hong Kong and became Queen's Counsel in 1979. He served on the Basic Law Drafting Committee from 1985 but was removed in 1989 for his support of the Tiananmen pro-democracy movement. Lee was a member of the Legislative Council from 1985 to 2008, first through the legal functional constituency and later via geographical constituency direct elections. He was the founding chairman of the United Democrats of Hong Kong and, after its merger with Meeting Point, the Democratic Party from 1994 to 2002. Long regarded as the 'father of Hong Kong democracy', he advocated universal suffrage and the rule of law under the Basic Law. In 2011 he received the 'Freedom Medal' from the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.