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Chief Executive of Hong Kong condemns British judge’s resignation | BBC News
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5:18Now PlayingA high-profile British judge who resigned from Hong Kong’s highest court last week has warned the city is “slowly becoming a totalitarian state” and judges are being compromised by an “impossible political environment created by China”.
Lord Sumption’s comments on Monday came as a third senior foreign judge in the past week resigned from the Court of Final Appeal.
Hong Kong’s government said it "strongly disapproves" of Lord Sumption's opinions, calling them a "betrayal against Hong Kong's judges".
It highlighted remarks from the other leaving judges who said they still believed in the independence of the courts.
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