{"id":43051,"date":"2022-03-30T23:53:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T14:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/30\/uk-judges-withdraw-from-hong-kong-court-of-final-appeal"},"modified":"2022-03-30T23:53:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T14:53:18","slug":"uk-judges-withdraw-from-hong-kongs-court-of-final-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43051","title":{"rendered":"UK judges withdraw from Hong Kong\u2019s court of final appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judges resign saying administration has \u2018departed from values of political freedom and freedom of expression\u2019<\/p>\n<p>UK judges have withdrawn from Hong Kong\u2019s court of final appeal, citing concerns that their continued participation would appear to endorse the current administration amid dwindling political liberties and freedom of expression in the Chinese territory.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Reed, the president of the UK supreme court, the country\u2019s highest court, said he and his colleague Lord Hodge had submitted their resignations as judges of the Hong Kong court of final appeal (HKCFA) with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/30\/uk-judges-withdraw-from-hong-kong-court-of-final-appeal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judges resign saying administration has \u2018departed from values of political freedom and freedom of expression\u2019UK judges have withdrawn from Hong Kong\u2019s court of final appeal, citing concerns that their continued participation would appear to endorse the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48,86,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-law","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43052,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43051\/revisions\/43052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}