Lord Sumption: Hong Kong ‘slowly becoming a totalitarian state,’ says top UK judge who quit city’s top court
UK judge Lord Sumption has deemed a recent judgement against Hong Kong democrats “legally indefensible,” said judges’ freedoms have been “severely limited,” and has spoken of an “oppressive atmosphere” and paranoia among the authorities, days after he quit the city’s top court. “Hong Kong, once a vibrant and politically diverse community is slowly becoming a totalitarian state. The rule of law is profoundly compromised in any area about which the government feels strongly,” he wrote in an explosive opinion piece for the Financial Times on Monday. Last Thursday, the 75-year-old overseas judge q...