Legislator Eunice Yung 'cuts Ties With Father-in-law'

New People's Party lawmaker Eunice Yung on Friday published a newspaper statement announcing that she was cutting ties with her father-in-law, Elmer Yuen.

On Wednesday, the Security Bureau denounced Yuen, along with journalist Victor Ho and disqualified lawmaker Sixtus Leung over an alleged national security law violation.

A spokesman had “severely condemned” the trio, “for forming a so-called ‘Hong Kong Parliament’ overseas, suspected of contravening the offence of subversion under Article 22 of the National Security Law.”

The bureau also vowed to bring any offenders to justice and urged the public to dissociate themselves from such people, to avoid “bearing any unnecessary legal risks.”

In her statement, Yung said that "as a Chinese with the grand blood of the motherland coursing through my veins", she was severing ties with Yuen and putting the country's interests first.