One of the best-known faces of the city’s protest movements, Chow disappeared from the spotlight in June 2021 after serving a 10-month sentence over an unauthorised assembly in 2019.
Hong Kong’s security police last year issued arrest warrants for 13 overseas Hong Kong activists, including Chow, and placed HK$1 million dollar bounties on each of their heads, accusing them of violating the Beijing-imposed security law.
Well, as a Canadian, I think they made a good choice of destination - Welcome neighbor! But, seriously, fuck China for bullshit like this.
I hope to live to see the day where the CCP is thrown out of power and Chinese people finally have a real say in their government.
My partner is a refugee because she criticized her government on Facebook. Really has opened my eyes to the ways in which life could be a lot worse. I’m grateful that that can’t happen here (USA), though I worry about the future.
