Hong Kong Activist Agnes Chow Questioned By Police On Japanese Ad

Hong Kong activist Agnes Chow on Tuesday slammed China’s national security law for the city as a “political tool for the regime,” as she commented on reports police had asked her about a pro-democracy advertisement published in Japan’s Nikkei financial newspaper last year. Chow spent another three hours with Hong Kong police on Tuesday afternoon.

She had been scheduled to visit Tai Po Police Station while on bail, and arrived by herself.

Soon after, she messaged waiting reporters to say that officers wanted to talk to her for longer and that her lawyer was on the way.

Chow addressed recent media reports that police had searched the Hong Kong office of Japan’s Nikkei financial newspaper, and that she had faced questions about an advertisement published in it last year.

“If this advertisement published in 2019 is really the evidence that I was against the national security law in the year 2020, it would be very ridiculous,” she said.

She said that would show the national security law to be a “political tool … to suppress political dissidents.”

Chow added that her next required appearance at the same police station was set for 2 December, the day before her 24th birthday.

The activist was arrested on 10 August, under Hong Kong’s new national security law, for alleged “collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security,” according to Hong Kong police.

Chow has already pleaded guilty to a separate charge related to last year’s protests, on which a Hong Kong court is scheduled to issue its verdict on 1 December.

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