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In this Hong Kong name, the surname is Ng. In accordance with Hong Kong custom, the Western-style name is Margaret Ng and the Chinese-style name is Ng Ngoi-yee.
Besides being a lawyer and journalist, Ng is also an accomplished expert in the fields of philosophy and literature. She has written several volumes of critical studies on the wuxia novels of Jin Yong and earned her Doctor of Philosophy degree from Boston University.
She appeared in a BBC documentary, The Last Governor, which followed Chris Patten and the last years of British rule in Hong Kong.
Like many politicians from the Pan-democrat camp, Ng is denied entry into the Mainland. On 12 September 1999, she was barred travel there to attend a conference on China's constitution.[2]
On 18 April 2020, Ng was arrested as one of 15 Hong Kong high-profile democracy figures, on suspicion of organizing, publicizing or taking part in several unauthorized assemblies between August and October 2019 in the course of the anti-extradition bill protests. Following protocol, the police statement did not disclose the names of the accused.[4][5] On 16 April 2021, she was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment suspended for 24 months.[6] On 12 April 2024 Margaret Ng (then aged 76) received from the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal a suspended sentence following conviction for taking part in an unauthorised procession in August 2019.[7] The decision generated considerable adverse publicity for Lord Neuberger (former President of the UK Supreme Court) for his participation in the decision.[8]
On 29 December 2021, Ng and six other people linked to Stand News were arrested on suspicion of breaching a colonial-era law covering conspiracy to print or distribute seditious materials that were supposedly published at the pro-democracy outlet. She was released on bail next day together with the five of the detained.[9][3][10]
