{"id":69039,"date":"2025-01-21T14:45:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T05:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/21\/hong-kong-chief-justice-claims-overseas-judges-have-left-due-to-orchestrated-harassment"},"modified":"2025-01-21T14:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T05:45:27","slug":"hong-kong-chief-justice-claims-overseas-judges-have-left-due-to-orchestrated-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69039","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong chief justice claims overseas judges have left due to \u2018orchestrated harassment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Cheung defends city\u2019s legal processes as \u2018transparent, fair and independent\u2019 despite mounting concerns from departing legal officers<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s top judge has claimed the exodus of foreign judges from the judiciary\u2019s benches since the introduction of the national security law is due to escalating geopolitical tensions and \u201corchestrated harassment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s chief justice, Andrew Cheung, made the remarks at the ceremonial opening of the city\u2019s legal year on Monday evening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uLkcPARouqo&amp;t=1675s\">in a speech<\/a> which acknowledged the changing political environment but otherwise stridently defended the judiciary. Hong Kong has a common law system separate from the Chinese mainland\u2019s, but observers say it is under growing political pressure.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/21\/hong-kong-chief-justice-claims-overseas-judges-have-left-due-to-orchestrated-harassment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Cheung defends city\u2019s legal processes as \u2018transparent, fair and independent\u2019 despite mounting concerns from departing legal officersHong Kong\u2019s top judge has claimed the exodus of foreign judges from the judiciary\u2019s benches since the introductio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,48,86,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-law","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\/69039","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69040,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69039\/revisions\/69040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}