Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow flees to Canada, plans to skip bail
Babushahi Bureau
Hong Kong, Decembe 4, 2023: Agnes Chow, a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist imprisoned for her role in massive 2019 protests, revealed on Sunday that she had moved to Canada and would not return to meet her bail conditions.
Chow was one of the most well-known young faces of the 2012, 2014, and 2019 protest movements in Hong Kong against Beijing's increasingly authoritarian rule.
She was imprisoned for about seven months in 2019 for her role in a protest outside the city's police headquarters, when huge crowds rallied week after week in the most serious challenge to Chinese rule since Hong Kong's handover in 1997.