Britain says it is withdrawing its judges from Hong Kong's top court

Britain has said, it is withdrawing its judges from Hong Kong’s top court because keeping them there would legitimize oppression in the former British colony. Announcing the decision, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said that there had been a systematic erosion of liberty and democracy in Hong Kong.

She said, the situation has reached a tipping point where it is no longer tenable for British judges to sit on Hong Kong’s leading court and would risk



legitimizing oppression. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said, the two U.K. judges had concluded that the constraints of the national security law make it impossible for them to continue to serve in the way that they would want. 

The two senior British judges on the court submitted their resignations yesterday. British judges have sat on the court since Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997.