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[td]{{Infobox officeholder[/td] [td]| office = [[Director of Public Prosecutions (Hong Kong)|Director of Public Prosecutions]][/td]
[td]| office = [[Law Officer (Civil Law)]][/td] [td]| name = Maggie Yang[/td]
[td]| name = Christina Cheung[/td] [td]| native_name = ๆฅ็พ็ช[/td]
[td]| native_name = ๅผต้ฆๆ ง[/td] [td]| native_name_lang = zh[/td]
[td]| native_name_lang = zh[/td] [td]| predecessor = [[David Leung]][/td]
[td]| predecessor = [[Benedict Lai]][/td] [td]| term_start = 13 August 2021[/td]
[td]| term_start = 26 February 2015[/td] [td]| alma_mater = [[University of Wales]][/td]
[td]| alma_mater = [[University of Hong Kong]][/td] [td]| honorific_suffix = {{postnom|country=HKG|JP}}[/td]
[td]| honorific_suffix = {{postnom|country=HKG|JP}}[/td] [td]}}[/td]
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[td][/td] [td]'''Maggie Yang Mei-kei''' {{Post-nominals|country=HKG|JP}} ({{Lang-zh|c=ๆฅ็พ็ช}}) is a [[Hong Kong]] [[barrister]] and [[Hong Kong Civil Service|civil servant]] who has been serving as the [[Director of Public Prosecutions (Hong Kong)|Director of Public Prosecutions of Hong Kong]] (DPP) since 2021,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Appointment of Director of Public Prosecutions (with photo) |url=https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202108/13/P2021081300225.htm |access-date=2025-08-31 |website=www.info.gov.hk}}</ref> becoming the first woman to be appointed to the role.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2021-08-03 |title=็จๅฎถ๏ฝๆฅ็พ็ชใๅๆญฃใ ๅไปปๅพๆฟๅธๅๆชข็งใไธๅงใ |url=https://www.stheadline.com/article/2138538/%E7%8D%A8%E5%AE%B6%E6%A5%8A%E7%BE%8E%E7%90%AA%E5%9D%90%E6%AD%A3-%E5%8D%87%E4%BB%BB%E5%BE%8B%E6%94%BF%E5%8F%B8%E5%88%91%E6%AA%A2%E7%A7%91%E4%B8%80%E5%A7%90 |access-date=2025-08-31 |website=ๆๅณถ้ ญๆข |language=zh-HK}}</ref> She is also the first post-[[Handover of Hong Kong|Handover]] DPP not to have [[Senior counsel|taken silk]] at the time of appointment.<ref name=":1" />[/td]
[td]'''Christina Cheung Kam-wai''' {{Post-nominals|country=HKG|JP}} ({{Lang-zh|c=ๅผต้ฆๆ ง}}) is a [[Hong Kong]] [[solicitor]] and [[Hong Kong Civil Service|civil servant]] who has been serving as [[Law Officer (Civil Law)]] since 2015, making her the first woman to serve as head of the Civil Division of the [[Department of Justice (Hong Kong)|Hong Kong Department of Justice]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Appointment of Law Officer (Civil Law) (with photo) |url=https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201502/11/P201502110392.htm |access-date=2025-08-31 |website=www.info.gov.hk}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=Face to Face with Christina Cheung Law Officer (Civil Law), Department of Justice {{!}} Hong Kong Lawyer |url=https://www.hk-lawyer.org/content/face-face-christina-cheung-law-officer-civil-law-department-justice |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919103022/
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[td][/td] [td]== Early life and education ==[/td]
[td]== Early life and education ==[/td] [td]Yang attended the University of Wales and graduated in 1989.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Department of Justice |date=5 July 2021 |title=National Security Law Legal Forum |url=https://www.legalhub.gov.hk/assets/pdf/epb293.pdf |access-date=31 August 2025 |website=www.legalhub.gov.hk}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]== Career ==[/td]
[td]== Career ==[/td] [td]Yang was admitted as a [[solicitor]] in [[England and Wales]] in 1992, and in Hong Kong in 1993. She joined the [[Prosecutions Division (Hong Kong)|Prosecutions Division]] of the then-[[Legal Department (Hong Kong)|Legal Department]] as a crown counsel the following year, and was successively promoted to senior crown counsel in 1996, deputy principal government counsel in 2012 and principal government counsel in 2019, spending most of her career as a prosecutor, except for a short stint in the [[Law Officer (Civil Law)|Civil Division]].<ref name=":0" /> [/td]
[td]Cheung was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and Hong Kong in 1989 and 1996 respectively, and joined the then-Legal Department in 1996 as a senior crown counsel.<ref name=":0" />[/td] [td][/td] [td]In 2019, Yang was appointed deputy director of prosecutions, and later served as the lead prosecutor in the [[Hong Kong 47]] case,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-13 |title=Lead lawyer in national security law case named Hong Kongโs chief prosecutor |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong...prosecutor-leading-national-security-law-case |access-date=2025-08-31 |website=South China Morning Post |language=en}}</ref> in which 47 pro-democracy politicians were prosecuted on [[2020 Hong Kong national security law|national security]] charges for participating in an [[2020 Hong Kong pro-democracy primaries|unofficial primary election]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Maggie Yang Mei-kei appointed as head of prosecution |url=https://www.thestandard.com.hk/brea...Yang-Mei-kei-appointed-as-head-of-prosecution |access-date=2025-08-31 |website=www.thestandard.com.hk |language=en}}</ref> She acted as director in rotation with deputy director William Tam after the resignation of [[David Leung]], who left the [[Department of Justice (Hong Kong)|Department of Justice]] in December 2020 after a conflict with [[Secretary for Justice]] [[Teresa Cheng (politician)|Teresa Cheng]].<ref name=":1" />[/td] [td][/td] [td]=== Director of Public Prosecutions ===[/td] [td]Yang was formally made Director of Public Prosecutions on 13 August 2021, shortly after being [[Call to the bar|called to the Bar]] in July 2021 following a 3-month [[pupillage]] under Anthony Houghton SC.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-07-25 |title=ๆฅ็พ็ช็ฒๆนๅคงๅพๅธซ่ณๆ ผ |url=https://www.stheadline.com/daily-hongkong/1747031/ๆฅ็พ็ช็ฒๆนๅคงๅพๅธซ่ณๆ ผ |access-date=2025-08-31 |website=ๆๅณถ้ ญๆข |language=zh-HK}}</ref> Had she remained a solicitor at the time of her appointment, she would have become the first solicitor to be appointed DPP.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kwan |first=Rhoda |date=2021-08-13 |title=Hong Kong appoints new prosecutions chief as protest and security law caseload piles up |url=https://hongkongfp.com/2021/08/13/h...s-protest-and-security-law-caseload-piles-up/ |access-date=2025-08-31 |website=Hong Kong Free Press HKFP |language=en-GB}}</ref> The [[Congressional-Executive Commission on China|U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China]] recommended in July 2022 that Yang be sanctioned for her leading role in political prosecutions.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ho |first=Kelly |date=2022-07-14 |title=US govโt agency urges sanctions against Hong Kong prosecutors, as local govโt slams โinterferenceโ |url=https://hongkongfp.com/2022/07/14/u...utors-as-local-govt-calls-slams-interference/ |access-date=2025-08-31 |work=[[Hong Kong Free Press]]}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td] [td]Speaking on an [[RTHK]] television programme on 23 April 2023, Yang said that "words are weapons" in relation to the national security law, and that if one's speech led other people to commit national security offences, it would be "impossible for them to be unscathed by the law".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lee |first=Peter |date=2023-04-24 |title=Words can be weapons, says Hong Kong head of prosecutions, as security chief says protests at risk of being โhijackedโ |url=https://hongkongfp.com/2023/04/24/w...hief-says-protests-at-risk-of-being-hijacked/ |access-date=2025-09-01 |work=[[Hong Kong Free Press]]}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
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