{"id":60420,"date":"2023-12-08T12:33:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T03:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/08\/hong-kong-activist-agnes-chow-life-in-exile-safety"},"modified":"2023-12-08T12:33:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T03:33:10","slug":"im-concerned-about-my-personal-safety-hong-kong-activist-agnes-chow-speaks-about-life-in-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60420","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m concerned about my personal safety\u2019: Hong Kong activist Agnes Chow speaks about life in exile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After announcing that she would not return to Hong Kong from Canada, the pro-democracy activist says she fears China\u2019s global reach<\/p>\n<p>In August this year Agnes Chow crossed into mainland China filled with fear. The young activist was in the company of five national security police, taking her from her home in Hong Kong, on what she says was a \u201cpropaganda tour\u201d organised by authorities in return for her being allowed to study overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Police had told her the tour was mandatory if she wanted them to return her passport, which they\u2019d confiscated years earlier as part of her bail conditions. Chow is a key figure in Hong Kong\u2019s most significant pro-democracy movement in the last decade, pushing back against Beijing\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law-comes-into-effect\">increasingly authoritarian rule in Hong Kong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/08\/hong-kong-activist-agnes-chow-life-in-exile-safety\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After announcing that she would not return to Hong Kong from Canada, the pro-democracy activist says she fears China\u2019s global reachIn August this year Agnes Chow crossed into mainland China filled with fear. The young activist was in the company of fiv&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,244,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60421,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60420\/revisions\/60421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}