Agnes Chow

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Agnes Chow (2019)

Agnes Chow Ting ( Chinese 周 庭, born December 3, 1996 ) is a Hong Kong democracy activist . She was a member of the executive committee (standing committee) of the Demosistō party and was previously a spokeswoman for the Scholarism movement.

biography

Agnes Chow was the spokeswoman for the 2012 student-activist group Scholarism against the government-sponsored Moral and National Education campaign . The young Catholic was studying at the Holy Family Canossian College. The new doctrine has been called brainwashing by the students . Several thousand people followed the movement. They protested at the central government building in Hong Kong and caused the administration to resign in September 2012.

Agnes Chow and Joshua Wong in September 2014. With their red blindfolds, they express that the Hong Kong students were blinded by China's political power.

After resisting the education campaign, Chow and other Scholarism activists , including Joshua Wong and Ivan Lam , continued their involvement in social and political movements. Among other things, they campaigned for a reform of the electoral law in the 2014 electoral reform campaign in Hong Kong .

Chow was one of the leaders in the class boycott campaign against the restrictive franchise set by the National People's Congress Standing Committee for the 2017 election of the head of government. There were massive occupation protests, which found expression in the umbrella revolution . During this occupation, Chow announced her retirement from politics and resigned as spokesperson for the Scholarism movement. She justified this step by saying that she was exposed to "high pressure" and "extreme confusion and exhaustion".

In April 2016 she was one of the founding members of the Demosistō along with other former student leaders of the Occupy protest movement. From 2016 to 2017 she was the first deputy general secretary. She campaigned with party executive Nathan Law for the 2016 Legislative Council election. Law was elected the youngest member in the history of the Legislative Council . In 2017, Chow took part in the protest against the President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping , during which the golden monument of the Bauhinia , the city flower of Hong Kong, was covered with banners. She was arrested together with the Demosistō chairman Nathan Law and the general secretary Joshua Wong .

Nathan Law was expelled from the Hong Kong Legislative Council in July 2017 over an oath controversy and was jailed in August that year, putting him under a law that banned him from running for public office for five years. Therefore, Chow was named as the Demosistō candidate for the 2018 election with the title Hong Kong Island By-election .

After the return of the Crown Colony in 1997, the citizens of Hong Kong retained a modified form of British citizenship. Chow refrained from doing so in order to emphasize her concern for free elections in Hong Kong.

In the course of the democracy protests in Hong Kong in 2019 , at the height of the clashes from June to the end of August 2019, over 850 people were arrested by Chinese and Hong Kong authorities, including Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow in August with allegations of participating in an illegal gathering on April 21. Participating in June and calling on others to participate ("inciting to participate in a prohibited gathering"). Wong also had to answer for the organization of the demonstration. Both face up to five years in prison. They were released on bail pending trial. In early December 2020, Agnes Chow was sentenced to ten months in prison. She was released on June 12, 2021.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/12/03/hong-kong-activists-sentenced-pro-democracy-imprisonment-resistence
  2. ↑ tagesschau.de: Hong Kong: Chow's fight for more democracy. Retrieved April 17, 2018 .
  3. ^ Parliamentary by-election - Agnes Chow - young political rebel in Hong Kong . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed April 17, 2018]).
  4. ^ Benjamin Haas: Enemy of the state? Agnes Chow, the 21-year-old activist who has worried China . In: The Guardian . February 4, 2018, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed August 31, 2019]).
  5. ^ Anniversary Arrests: Hong Kong Activists Free on Bail . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 1, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Activist Joshua Wong Sentenced to Imprisonment , In: Zeit Online, December 2, 2020.
  7. ^ Maria Marquart: Activist Chow released on the anniversary of the protests
personal data
SURNAME Chow, Agnes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chow Ting, Agnes (full name); 周 庭 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese social activist in Hong Kong
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1996