The Hong Kong Bar Association (HKBA) has urged the city’s justice minister to defend the judiciary after a local pro-Beijing newspaper condemned a recent court ruling that found that police’s failure to display identification numbers violated the city’s Bill of Rights.
On Nov. 23, HKBA, a prominent lawyer’s group in the city, published a statement and a copy of a letter it sent to Hong Kong’s Justice Secretary Teresa Cheng voicing concern about a Nov. 20 article published by local newspaper Ta Kung Pao. In the letter, HKBA said it was in “utter dismay and astonishment” over what it described as a “virulent article attacking” the ruling of Judge Anderson Chow against the city’s police force.
