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Remaining British judges urged to resign from Hong Kong’s top court
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On 24 June, Neuberger will hear an appeal from Jimmy Lai, a British citizen and former media mogul who was one of Hong Kong’s most vocal critics of the Chinese Communist party before being arrested in 2020.
Lawyers representing Lai and six co-defendants are appealing to Hong Kong’s highest court to overturn their convictions in an unlawful assembly case.
“It is astonishing that a man who is the chair of a high level panel on media freedom can sit on the trial of Jimmy Lai, a newspaper publisher,” Sabah said.
Lai is separately on trial for allegedly violating Hong Kong’s national security law, which was imposed in 2020 and for which he faces a maximum of life in prison.
But since 2020, when Beijing imposed a harsh national security law, snuffing out months of pro-democracy protests, there has been increasing concern that the judges lend credibility to a regime which no longer respects basic rights and freedoms.
On Monday, the last remaining Canadian judge, Beverley McLachlin, announced that she would be retiring from the Hong Kong court of final appeal at the end of July.
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