Hong Kong Activist Agnes Chow Transferred to Maximum-Security Prison: Media Reports

Pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow speaks to the press after she was released on bail at the Eastern Magistrates Courts in Hong Kong on August 30, 2019. Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP via Getty Images

Recently jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow was transferred to a maximum-security prison in the city on Dec. 31, according to local media reports.

Chow, 24, earlier this year pleaded guilty to participating in and inciting others to take part in an “unlawful assembly” on June 2019. She was sentenced to 10 months in prison on Dec. 2.