Hong Kong Police Order Zhou Ting to Appear in Court after She Announces She is Seeking Asylum in Canada

I was forced to negotiate with the police when I left the country, and ’23 was a very difficult year for me, but all the while I was thinking, ‘How can I move toward freedom? For the past three years, I have had no freedom. Then I came across the anime “Shinkage no Kyojin,” and I found myself overlaying my own “shadow” on it. In the story, the main characters continue to fight to get out of the walls.

On December 14, the Hong Kong Police Department issued an order to Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow (27), who had announced in an exclusive interview with FRIDAY (December 26, 2011) that she would not return to Hong Kong, to appear before them.

At a press conference on December 14, the National Security Division of the Hong Kong Police Force told Ms. Chou that she had not yet committed a crime,

If he does not turn himself in (to the Hong Kong police on time), he will become a fugitive from justice. If that happens, he will be a wanted fugitive.

He demanded that Zhou return to Hong Kong.

Zhou, known in Japan as the “Jeanne d’Arc of Hong Kong” and the “Goddess of Democracy” for her fluent Japanese on social networking services, was convicted of inciting an unauthorized assembly in Hong Kong three years ago and sentenced to prison. She was imprisoned for about seven months and released in June 2009.

In her first Instagram update in almost two years, she revealed that she left Hong Kong this September after receiving permission to study in Canada and is currently in Toronto, Canada. In addition,

　I originally planned to return to Hong Kong in December to go to the police, but after considering the situation in Hong Kong, my own personal safety, and my physical and mental health, I have decided not to return to Hong Kong. He will probably never return.

He posted. I had effectively declared asylum at ……. If Zhou returns to Hong Kong as requested, what fate awaits him?

That brings to mind Teresa Teng.

She is a singer from Taiwan, but after the “Tiananmen Square” incident, she began to cry for democracy in China. She soon came to the attention of the authorities, and eventually she could no longer live in Hong Kong, where she had been living, so she moved to Paris for her own safety.

However, even in Paris, there were always whispers of “assassination” by the Chinese government. The process of Teresa and Mr. Zhou up to this point is very similar, and I am very concerned about Mr. Zhou’s return to Hong Kong.

Teresa was originally a singer from Taiwan, but when she debuted in Japan in the early ’70s, she became very popular with many hit songs and became one of the top stars.