HK activist says desire for freedom led her to flee

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow, who fled to Canada while free on bail, tells Reuters she won't return home amid a crackdown that curbed her freedoms, defying a warning from Hong Kong's leader that she would be pursued for life. Chow said that she faced intense scrutiny from authorities for several years and that with her passport confiscated, she constantly lived in fear and had to remain silent. - REUTERS