A handful of people joined a protest organized by a pro-government group outside the High Court today, demanding that Civic Party legislator and barrister Tanya Chan be disbarred over claims she breached a new law on public gatherings, RTHK reports. The government said last week that police will investigate whether Chan violated a new coronavirus-era law banning public gatherings of more than four people when she went to a bar in Sham Shui Po early this month. But the pro-government group, whose name in Chinese roughly translates as "Hong Kong love, Chinese hearts," dismissed the idea that Chan was holding a meeting. The group handed a petition letter to the Bar Association, simultaneously urging it to disqualify Chan as a barrister, as well as to launch a disciplinary hearing into her actions. They argued that it is even worse for a barrister to break the law than other people.

Source: The Standard April 14, 2020 06:22 UTC