HONG KONG – The Hong Kong Bar Association on Tuesday asked Beijing to “exercise restraint” in its comments about matters in the Chinese-ruled city, warning that its views could be perceived as interference in the global financial hub is.

The affiliation, which speaks around 1,500 legal advisors in the previous British Colony, offered the articulation after the Liaison Office, Beijing’s top representative office in Hong Kong, dealt with the interests court keeping up the lawfulness of the city’s leader time frame Emergency Regulations Ordinance.

During the tallness of against government displays in October, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam gathered emergency controls unprecedented for more than 50 years, allowing her to execute another guideline banning face masks.

The appeals court said last week that while a blanket government ban on face masks was unconstitutional, it empowered them to prohibit illegal assemblies.

The barrister also highlighted a Beijing statement on Monday that pro-democracy lawmakers filibuster meetings in Hong Kong’s Legislative Council that could be guilty of misconduct in public office.

In a special report published on Tuesday, three top Hong Kong judges told Reuters that the leadership of the Communist Party in Beijing is attacking the independence of the city’s judicial system. The judiciary said, is in the fight for its existence.

The bar association said comments from the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO) and the Liaison Office show that the area’s basic law, or touch on matters administered by the mini-constitution, “easily intervened in violation of the doctrine. Can be considered as “one country, two systems. ”

Hong Kong returned to Beijing in 1997 under a “one country, two system” formula that makes it follow British-style rule by 2047, and its high degree of autonomy is widely recognized as an international financial center. Is considered important for prosperity.

Protests in June last year increased sharply, driven by a widespread belief that Beijing was improperly diverting attention to Hong Kong cases and police complaints of police brutality.

Beijing denied interfering in the city’s affairs, and police said they exercised restraint amid the escalating violence.

Democrats rejected comments by the HKMAO and the Liaison office, with a war of words taking place.

Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday evening, leader Carrie Lam dismissed claims that Beijing had interfered in the city’s affairs, saying it was normal for the central government to “express its concerns”.