Owen Chow
Owen Chow Ka-shing is a Hong Kong localist activist. He was a 2019 District Council election candidate in Tai Wai and ran in the pro-democracy primaries for the 2020 Legislative Council election with the slogan "reject colonisers, national resistance against tyranny" in New Territories East.Biography
Born in 1997, Chow studies Nursing at the Open University of Hong Kong. He was heavily involved in the 2019 anti-extradition protests and said he was on the very front line of the protest. In the 2019 District Council election, he ran in Tai Wai, one of the few constituencies where more than one pro-democrat was running against each other. He lost in the four-way contest against pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong incumbent Kelly Tung and Democratic Party candidate Ng Ting-lam, receiving only 748 votes. Chow accused the Democratic Party for not showing up in the district until the very late stage but was also being accused of splitting the votes.
In the pro-democracy primaries for the 2020 Legislative Council election, Chow ran in New Territories East with the slogan "reject colonisers, national resistance against tyranny", becoming one of the most radical platforms in the primaries. He deleted the words "Hong Kong nation" and "colonial" in his election advertisements after the passing of the Hong Kong national security law on 30 June 2020 which criminalises "separatism, subversion, terrorism and foreign interference", mocking the chilling effect of the new law had created. He ended up winning 16,758 votes and came fifth in New Territories East, securing the nomination to run in the general election.
