Following Denial of Evading Sanctions, HK Government ‘Admits’ Prosecutor Resigned Two Months After Being Named

Hui Chi-fung, left, a Democratic Party politician, is detained by riot police during a protest in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, on June 12, 2020. The Canadian Press/AP/Vincent Yu

Alice Chan Shook-man, senior assistant director of public prosecutions of the Hong Kong Department of Justice (DoJ), who was put on the proposed sanction list by a US bi-partisan group, has resigned,  amid speculation of evading U.S. sanctions. To counter that, the DoJ said that Ms. Chan resigned in September 2023 before the sanction list was out.

However, a review of the sequence of events indicates that the DoJ’s statement was inconsistent with the facts. Ms. Chan’s name had already appeared on the list of people recommended for sanction in the report issued by the Congress and Executive Committee on China (CECC) on July 12, 2023.