Agnes Chow

Agnes Chow is a Hong Kong political activist who became prominent through the 2014 student-led Umbrella Movement. She later co-founded the pro-democracy party Demosistō and became one of the movement’s most recognizable young advocates. In 2020, she was sentenced to 10 months in prison for her role in a 2019 unauthorized assembly; after leaving Hong Kong for Canada in 2023, she said she would not return to fulfill her bail conditions.