Hong Kong protests: political activist Agnes Chow released from prison after serving six months for unauthorised assembly
- Chow, 24, was greeted by a handful of supporters and a media scrum on Saturday morning after leaving the Tai Lam Centre for Women
- She was jailed for her role in a siege of police headquarters on June 21, 2019, after admitting incitement and taking part in an unauthorised assembly
The 24-year-old was mobbed by scores of journalists as she emerged at about 10am from a prison van in Tuen Mun during intermittent downpours, but only a handful of supporters were there to greet her, one of whom held a yellow umbrella aloft symbolising the city’s opposition movement.
The often vocal activist did not make any statements to the gathered media but flashed smiles at those calling out her name and cheering her release as she negotiated her way through the crowd towards a waiting white Nissan seven-seater. She wore a white t-shirt with a drawing of a woman pressing her head forward into a strong wind and the words “You are so great”.
Despite their small numbers, her supporters chanted “Add oil, Chow Ting” in Cantonese, a colloquial term loosely translated as “keep it up”. Her noticeably slighter frame was difficult to track among the mob of almost 100 journalists.
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Hong Kong activist Agnes Chow released from prison after serving six months for unauthorised assembl
The prison vehicle released Chow at the junction of Tai Tam Chung Road and Castle Peak after ferrying her from the Tai Lam Centre for Women, where she served her jail term.