Arrested for alleged national security crimes, Agnes Chow hails from a generation of Hong Kong democracy activists who cut their teeth in politics ...
But at the age of 15 she joined a youth-led movement protesting against plans to implement"moral and national education" in public schools.
Agnes Chow and Joshua Wong are also being prosecuted for taking part in last year's huge protests in Hong Kong. Yet a whole new generation of opposition politicians were forged in the fires of that movement. "The government is trying to get rid of all the political parties who are against them," Chow told a crowd of protesters shortly after the decision.
She soon built a huge social media following in Japan in particular. Her Twitter account, which primarily publishes in Japanese, has 458,000 followers.
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