Former Hong Kong activist Agnes Chow flees territory for Canada
theguardian.com
Former Hong Kong activist Agnes Chow who was jailed over her role in pro-democracy protests revealed on Sunday she had moved to Canada and would not return to meet her bail conditions.
Chow was one of the best known young faces of the 2012, 2014 and 2019 protest movements against Beijing’s increasingly authoritarian rule in Hong Kong. She ran a pro-democracy group called Demosisto with fellow activist Joshua Wong.
She spent about seven months behind bars for her role in a protest outside the city’s police headquarters in 2019, when huge crowds rallied week after week in the most serious challenge to China’s rule since Hong Kong’s 1997 handover.
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Now she just needs to avoid those secret Chinese police stations throughout Canada.
Is that actually a thing? Or just a joke?
It's real and it's happening everywhere.
Haven't heard about stations, but the police/spies in other countries and threatening Chinese people abroad is not new.
It's real, but mainly aims for corrupted former officials, e.g. Operation Fox Hunt. Arresting Hong Kong dissidents might be more politically difficult.