Current verified status: EXILE / NOT CURRENTLY IMPRISONED.
Agnes Chow is a prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and former Demosisto leader. She served a prison term connected to the 2019 protests and was later investigated under the National Security Law. She moved to Canada in 2023 and said she would not return to Hong Kong to meet bail-reporting requirements. She is tracked as an exile/wanted dissident, not as a current prisoner.
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Counting rule: This profile remains in the Hong Kong dissident catalog but is excluded from the current-prisoner counter.
Last status review: September 14, 2026.