Ex-Bar Association chair says he left Hong Kong after being warned by nat. sec. police of possible sedition charge
The former chairperson of the Hong Kong Bar Association has said he left the city two years ago after being warned by national security police that he could be charged for sedition over his past comments in a book and on a social media platform. Paul Harris, who was a senior counsel in the city who served as the association’s chair in 2021, said his decision to leave Hong Kong was expedited by an interview under caution with the national security department of the police in early-March 2022, in which he was told that the force was considering charging him for sedition. In his first media inter...