Agnes Chow

Agnes Chow during 2017 July 1 march.

Agnes Chow Ting (Chinese: 周庭; born 3 December 1996) is a Hong Kong social activist. He is the member of the Standing Committee of Demosistō and former spokesperson of Scholarism.

Biography

She first came to spotlight in the anti-Moral and National Education movement as the spokesman of student activist group Scholarism in 2012. She was a Form 6 student at the Holy Family Canossian College and protested against the implementation of the Moral and National Education scheme which they deemed as "brainwashing". The movement successfully drew thousands of protesters gathered in front of the Central Government Complex which led to the backdown of the government in September 2012.

Agnes Chow and Joshua Wong on 23 September 2014. They wear red blindfolds to symbolise students figuratively blinded by China's political power.

After the Moral and National Education, Chow and other activists of Scholarism including Joshua Wong and Ivan Lam continued their involvement in social and political movements, notably the 2014 Hong Kong electoral reform. Chow was one of the leaders in the class boycott campaign against the restrictive electoral framework set by the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) on the 2017 Chief Executive election, which led to the massive Occupy protests dubbed the "Umbrella Revolution". During the occupation, Chow announced her stepping out of the politics by resigning as spokesperson of Scholarism, citing the "heavy pressure" and "extreme confusion and fatigue" she was facing.

In April 2016, she was among one of the founding members of Demosistō with other former student leaders in the Occupy protests and was the first deputy secretary-general of the party from 2016 to 2017. She campaigned with party chairman Nathan Law in the 2016 Legislative Council election, in which the latter was elected as the youngest member of the Legislative Council in history. In 2017, she participated in the protest during the President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping, in which they covered the Golden Bauhinia statue with banners. She was arrested along with Demosistō chairman Nathan Law and secretary-general Joshua Wong.

After Nathan Law was ejected from the Legislative Council over the oath-taking controversy in July 2017, Chow became Demosistō's candidate in the 2018 Hong Kong Island by-election.