- Canadian lawyer Robert Tibbo says he resigned from Hong Kong Bar Association because he believed he would never get a fair hearing
- Tibbo denies ‘helping Snowden to escape’ and ‘exploiting his clients to make money for himself’ as well as putting them in danger
A human rights lawyer has accused the Hong Kong Bar Association of trying to stop him from practising in the city by using “false complaints” for his role in representing Edward Snowden and getting refugees to shelter the whistle-blower in 2013.
Speaking on the 10th anniversary of the explosive leaks which revealed the United States' global spying activities, Canadian lawyer Robert Tibbo said the #nationalsecuritylaw introduced in 2020 had made the city "a place where whistle-blowing is almost impossible". #Snowden #HK pic.twitter.com/7FoxCAUIds
— Spring0527 (@Spring02060527) June 17, 2023
Canadian Robert Tibbo said that in 2017 outgoing Bar Association chairwoman Winnie Tam Wan-chi and present Secretary for Justice Paul Lam Ting-kwok, her successor, initiated an internal disciplinary investigation against him.
Snowden, a former contract worker at the US’s National Security Agency, leaked thousands of documents that outlined the United States’ global surveillance programme to the world’s media from Hong Kong in June 2013 and was represented by Tibbo while in the city.
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https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-Big-Story/Hong-Kong-s-persecuted-patriot
https://harthouse.ca/profile/robert-tibbo
