Hong Kong activist Agnes Chow has been released from prison on the second anniversary of the city's anti-Beijing protests
Chow, 24, was mobbed by waiting media but made no comment. She wore a t-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "You are doing so great".
She spent around seven months behind bars for her role in a 2019 protest outside the city's police headquarters. Fellow youth activists Joshua Wong and Ivan Lam were sentenced in the same case.Two years ago on June 12, thousands of protesters surrounded the city's legislature in an attempt to stop the passage of a bill that could have allowed extraditions to mainland China's opaque judicial system.
Beijing's leaders have dismissed the call for democracy, portraying those who protested as stooges of "foreign forces" trying to undermine China. She has not yet been charged but dozens of others have, including jailed pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai.Protests have been all but illegal for the last year in Hong Kong but anniversary events can focus attention.
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