Vidler – who began his career at the London firm Duthie Hart & Duthie – leaves a legacy of advocating for equality for minorities and the underprivileged. He also represented Ms X, a woman who alleged she had been gang-raped by officers at a police station in September 2019. Vidler did take on the case of Indonesian journalist Veby Mega Indah, who lost an eye after allegedly being hit by a police projectile while covering the 2019 protests, but Vidler told HKFP last year they no longer represented her. He was one of Michael Vidler’s well-known clients. Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong in custody in 2020.
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But Vidler said his firm had never represented “one person at trial accused of actions” during 2019, adding that the characterisations by “Communist party mouthpieces” was “extraordinary”.
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Vidler was also labelled a “protest lawyer” by Beijing-backed media.Īfter the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests, Vidler represented activist Joshua Wong, and his firm also assisted social worker Ken Tsang in his fight to identify seven police officers who assaulted him during the 79-day street occupations. Under the security law, imposed in June 2020, authorities can handpick judges for closed-door trials, with sentences of up to life in prison.
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Leaders of the Spark Alliance – which financed protester bail payments – and the now defunct Civil Human Rights Front protest coalition, have been targeted by the police. And the fact that this was said by a national security judge was greatly concerning.” ‘Anti-China protest lawyer’ “ thought that I could be associated with the crimes to which my clients were accused, merely because my client may have been found with my business card, was just horrific to me. “I saw that as essentially a call to action by the national security police against my firm,” Vidler said.
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He added that he would not comment on whether anyone had committed professional misconduct. In February, the judge, Stanley Chan, noted that a defendant accused of unlawful assembly, assaulting police and possessing weapons was carrying a card printed with legal assistance contacts, including the Spark Alliance, the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) and Vidler & Co.Ĭhan said in his judgment that the “advice” or “legal guidance” on the card reflected how organised the protest was, though he said he would refrain from stating whether the organisations “were inciters as defined by the court of final appeal, had accessorial or inchoate liability”. Speaking to HKFP via video link days after he landed in the UK, Vidler said one of the last straws was when his firm was mentioned by one of the city’s hand-picked national security judges, even though it had no link to the protest case the judge was hearing.
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“The fact that the state media were waiting for me and also published details of other travel plans for my family indicates that this confidential information was obtained by state actors and passed to the state media so that they could be waiting at the airport and publish the details straight away,” he said, adding that plainclothed immigration officers appeared to watch him board the plane. In Hong Kong, concerted front-page campaigns in the Beijing-backed press are often seen as a warning of looming trouble. Michael Vidler at Hong Kong airport Photograph: supplied by Michael Vidler One of those questions was “Are you leaving because you are a traitor?” The grilling continued until he went into the restricted area. By the time he got to the airport, “about seven to 10 people from state media were waiting at the check-in counter and descended, taking photos and calling out questions in Chinese”, the lawyer said.
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On the day of his trip, Vidler was notified by his staff that someone – allegedly from state-backed media – was waiting for him at his office, so he avoided going back. His departure came weeks after two British judges resigned from the city’s highest court, citing security law concerns, and less than two months after Paul Harris, the former chief of the Bar Association, also British, left after being summoned by police. Several news outlets have shuttered and most opposition politicians are behind bars or in self-exile. Vidler’s untimely departure came amid a sweeping crackdown that has seen hundreds of activists arrested under the security law or other legislation and more than 60 civil society groups disbanded. Hong Kong was my home … This isn’t how I expected to end my firm or my time in Hong Kong,” Vidler told HKFP after a hasty exit to the UK in late April.