Hong Kong’s top prosecutor resigns post amid row with justice minister: source
- In email to colleagues, David Leung says he does not ‘see eye to eye’ with secretary for justice’s running of department, a situation that ‘has not improved’
- Leung has held the top post since 2017 and was known for his prosecution of leaders of the Occupy protests
News of his departure was conveyed in an email he sent to colleagues at the Department of Justice on Friday, according to sources.
“It is most unfortunate that I do not see eye to eye with the [secretary for justice] on the running of [the Prosecution Division], and the situation has not improved with the passage of time,” Leung wrote in his departure message to colleagues, a copy of which was seen by the Post.
“This is not conducive to the smooth operation of PD and certainly not something that I, as a prosecutor serving the division for 25 years and the current head, would like to see.”
It would now be for Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah and the division to have a new director of public prosecutions “so that new ideas and visions can be brought in”, he wrote.