Canada's former top judge is ending her term on a high-level Hong Kong court, saying she has faith in that institution while keeping mum on democratic backsliding in the city-state.
Outgoing Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin listens to a question during a news conference in Ottawa on December 15, 2017. Canada's former top judge is ending her term on a high-level Hong Kong court, saying she has faith in that institution while keeping mum on democratic backsliding in the city-state.Beverley McLachlin served as Canada's chief justice from 2000 to 2017 and joined the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal a year later.
"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. "The least sign of dissent is treated as a call for revolution." Rights groups and critics say Chinese authorities' enactment of a 2020 national-security law has eroded Hong Kong's judicial independence and all but wiped out public dissent. Many pro-democracy activists have been arrested under the law.In May, a Hong Kong court found 14 pro-democracy activists guilty of conspiring to commit subversion in the city's biggest national-security case to date.
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