Hong Kong court rules in favour of teacher fired over comments about police in 2019 Facebook posts
A Hong Kong judge sided with a teacher who was fired over online comments about police in 2019, ruling that the authorities’ decision to dismiss her was “oppressive.” Toffee Tam, a veteran teacher, won her case against the Civil Service Bureau at the High Court on Friday. She lodged a judicial review last October, three months after losing her job at a government secondary school. She was also stripped of her retirement benefits. The Civil Service Bureau had accused her of publishing Facebook posts between June and September 2019 that negatively affected students and tarnished the government’s...