https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/storm-eunice-tracker-56hhjwr2m A Hong Kong court relied on a ruling by the UK’s most senior judge to justify jailing a former pro-democracy member of the territory’s parliament.
The imprisonment of Fernando Cheung this month, which commentators said was made possible by a ruling involving the president of the Supreme Court, has reignited calls for the eight UK judges who sit on Hong Kong’s highest bench to resign.
A former Tory cabinet minister said the judges were in danger of being “used as a fig leaf for an oppressive regime”. Another Tory MP called them “useful idiots”.
Cheung, 64, a former Labour Party member of the Hong Kong legislative council, known as LegCo, was jailed for three weeks after pleading guilty to charges of contempt. He had chanted