Hong Kong’s justice secretary, chief justice, and its two professional legal bodies, have backed the city’s judicial independence, after two of the top court’s overseas judges resigned on Thursday. Meanwhile, the city’s leader said rights and freedoms have been maintained after one of the judges cited the “political situation” as his reason for quitting. British judges Lord Jonathan Sumption, 75, and Lord Lawrence Collins, 83, quit the Court of Final Appeal, with the latter citing the “political situation.” Chief Justice Andrew Cheung said in a statement in the early hours of Friday that Non-P…