The U.K. will withdraw its top judges sitting in Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal, saying China is using its national security law to undermine fundamental rights and freedoms in the former British colony.
“We have seen a systematic erosion of liberty and democracy in Hong Kong,” Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in a statement Wednesday. “The situation has reached a tipping point where it is no longer tenable for British judges to sit on Hong Kong’s leading court, and would risk legitimizing oppression.”
