Hong Kong Activist Agnes Chow Released on Pro-Democracy Protest Anniversary

Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow described prison as "agony” on Saturday after she was released on the second anniversary of the city's huge democracy rallies, with police out in force and protests now all but banned. Two thousand officers have been placed on standby after social media calls for residents to commemorate the failed democracy demonstrations. Authorities have kept a coronavirus prohibition on public gatherings, despite the city recording just three local infections in the last month. A Beijing-imposed national security law has also criminalised much dissent and most of the city's democracy leaders have been arrested, jailed or…