Tomorrow, @chowtingagnes @joshuawongcf and Ivan Lam will be sentenced. Of the three, it is Agnes' first time in prison. In this profile, we look at how her star power made Demosisto a group with "genuine international appeal" @jeffreychngo https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/agnes-chow-hong-kong-democracy-japan/2020/11/29/541fb542-2e4c-11eb-9dd6-2d0179981719_story.html

Anywhere else, teen activists like @chowtingagnes who taught herself Japanese as a preteen and gave up foreign citizenship to serve their home would be considered the future of their city. @demosisto however, a thoroughly non-violent group, has been villainized and persecuted

Agnes is single-handedly credited with raising the awareness of Hong Kong's plight in Japan, especially among fellow otakus: “I think the reaction in Japan to Hong Kong would have been significantly different without her," said one longtime Japanese journalist

She will be 24 on Thursday. Still staggering to think quite how young some of the icons of Hong Kong's democracy are, and to contemplate their path to adulthood