Agnes Chow recounts Class A prisoner experience, says novels helped her forget the pain; June 4 letter disappears
周庭談甲級囚犯經歷 靠看小說忘記痛苦 6月4日信件消失
Agnes Chow, a former member of Demosisto, announced at the end of last year that she had forfeited bail and would remain in Canada. In a video uploaded to YouTube yesterday (26th), she described her experience in prison between 2020 and 2021, including being classified by the Correctional Services Department as a “Class A prisoner” and held in solitary confinement, and travelling in a prison van colloquially known as the “Ironclad Dragon”. She said she became absorbed in Keigo Higashino’s novels in prison: “Novels could let me become absorbed in a fantasy world and forget the pain of the real world.” She also revealed that a letter she sent on June 4 mysteriously disappeared, and said she was unsure whether this was due to an administrative error, the post office losing it, or political reasons.
前「香港眾志」成員周庭去年底宣布棄保留在加拿大，她昨日（26日）在YouTube上載影片，講述自己在2020年至21年間入獄服刑的經歷，包括被懲教處判定是「甲級囚犯」要單獨囚禁、坐俗稱「鐵甲威龍」的囚車。她分享在獄中沉迷東野圭吾小說，「小說可以令我沉迷喺幻想世界入面，可以令我忘記現實世界嘅痛苦」。她又透露6月4日寄出的信離奇消失，不肯定是行政出錯、郵局寄失或涉政治原因。