Hong Kong law was being “weaponised” against the city’s democracy movement, and British lawyers and judges should not sit on cases in the city, the director of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has said. The Judiciary, in response, has said judges “decide cases impartially and independently.” The statement came on the eve of UK judge David Neuberger quitting the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom, which advises the Media Freedom Coalition, an NGO that advocates for press freedom at the state level. IBAHRI is secretariat for the High Level Panel…
