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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

UK-based lawyers for Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai targeted by Chinese state

Tatyana Eatwell and Caoilfhionn Gallagher outside Doughty Street Chambers
Tatyana Eatwell and Caoilfhionn Gallagher. Gallagher, who is leading Lai’s international team, has had ‘hundreds’ of attempts to hack her bank account. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

UK-based lawyers have spoken out about being targeted by the Chinese state and its supporters in a campaign of intimidation including surveillance, hacking of bank accounts and rape threats.

The barristers, from Doughty Street Chambers in London, say there has been a coordinated and concerted campaign against them since they began acting for the jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and media mogul, Jimmy Lai, three years ago.

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