A former lawmaker and doctor was stripped of his medical license by the Medical Council in Hong Kong. This marks the first disciplinary case linking a medical profession to national security charges.

A former lawmaker and doctor who was previously imprisoned for conspiracy to commit subversion has been struck off Hong Kong’s register of medical practitioners, becoming the first national security-related disciplinary case to involve the profession. In a ruling handed down on Thursday, the Medical Council ordered that specialist urologist Dr Kwok Ka-ki, 64, be removed indefinitely from the General Register, which took immediate effect upon publication in the government gazette. Kwok, once a...