Hong Kong opposition lawmaker guilty of snatching civil servant’s phone and should be censured, finds legislature committee
- Democratic Party lawmaker Ted Hui Chi-fung likely to survive the censure motion as the current term of the legislature ends in 10 days
- Hui grabbed the phone of senior executive officer Christina Leung Ngok-sze outside a Legco meeting and ran into a toilet with it
A Hong Kong opposition lawmaker found guilty of snatching a civil servant’s phone should be censured for misbehaviour, an investigation committee of the legislature has concluded.
But Democratic Party lawmaker Ted Hui Chi-fung is likely to survive the censure motion that follows – which if passed could unseat him from the Legislative Council – as the current term of the legislature ends in 10 days.
Hui’s political career was hit in 2018 after he grabbed the phone of senior executive officer Christina Leung Ngok-sze outside a Legco meeting and ran into a toilet with it.
She was one of the officers marshalling lawmakers into the meeting over the controversial immigration arrangements for the West Kowloon high-speed rail terminal, and Hui felt it was wrong for the government to monitor lawmakers’ whereabouts.
New People’s Party chairwoman Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee tabled the motion one month after the 2018 incident, paving the way for the establishment of the investigation committee, which was dominated by the pro-establishment camp.