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Former Hong Kong activist Agnes Chow flees territory for Canada

Agnes Chow outside court in 2020
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow has left Hong Kong for Canada. Photograph: Vincent Yu/AP

Agnes Chow, a high-profile Hong Kong activist who was jailed over the 2019 pro-democracy protests and charged with foreign collusion, has moved to Canada and says she will probably never return to Hong Kong to meet her bail conditions.

In social media posts on Sunday, Chow said she had moved to Canada to study and was suffering mental health impacts as a result of the pressure and restrictions she was under in Hong Kong, awaiting trial on national security charges.

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