Chow was one of nine people arrested in 2020 under the new national security law and says her mental health has suffered

Former Hong Kong activist Agnes Chow who was jailed over her role in pro-democracy protests revealed on Sunday she had moved to Canada and would not return to meet her bail conditions.

Chow was one of the best known young faces of the 2012, 2014 and 2019 protest movements against Beijing’s increasingly authoritarian rule in Hong Kong. She ran a pro-democracy group called Demosisto with fellow activist Joshua Wong.

She spent about seven months behind bars for her role in a protest outside the city’s police headquarters in 2019, when huge crowds rallied week after week in the most serious challenge to China’s rule since Hong Kong’s 1997 handover.

  • @MisterD@lemmy.caEnglish
    61•1 year ago

    Now she just needs to avoid those secret Chinese police stations throughout Canada.

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    2•1 year ago

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    Former Hong Kong activist Agnes Chow who was jailed over her role in pro-democracy protests revealed on Sunday she had moved to Canada and would not return to meet her bail conditions.

    She announced that she left for Toronto in mid-September for university studies and she would not return to Hong Kong in December to report to the police as her bail conditions demand.

    Chow was one of nine people arrested in 2020 alongside pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai accused of “colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security”.

    However, in early July, Hong Kong police offered to return her passport on the condition that Chow would travel with them once to the mainland Chinese city of Shenzhen.

    She agreed, and in mid-August spent a day with five police officers, where she was shown an exhibition of China’s achievements and the headquarters of tech company Tencent – where she was requested to pose for photos.

    Wong was jailed in Hong Kong over a “subversion” case while Nathan Law, another activist, has fled abroad with a HK$1m bounty on his head.

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