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02.10.2021 / 01:23

Michael Spavor breaks silence after returning from China, says he’s ‘overjoyed’ to be home

Michael Spavor, one of two Canadians that were detained in China shortly after Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, says that he’s happy to be back home and reunited with his family.“I’m overjoyed to be finally reunited with my family,” said Spavor in his first public statement since arriving back in Canada. ‘Two Michaels’ welcomed home by friends, family after years in Chinese detention “It’s humbling as I begin to understand the continued support that we’ve received from Canadians and those around the world, thank you.

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UNGA 2021: Garneau thanks allies after 2 Michaels released from Chinese prison, returned to Canada

Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, Federal Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau thanked Canada’s international allies after Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were released from Chinese prison. The two were returned to Canada, following a deferred prosecution agreement in the case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

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Canada, China trade barbs at UN General Assembly over 2 Michaels, Meng Wanzhou

Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who returned to Canada after nearly three years in Chinese detention. China continues to deny retaliatory arrests, freed 2 Michaels for health reasons The announcement of their release by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday night came hours after a deferred prosecution agreement in the case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who was accused of committing fraud in order to circumvent U.S.

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‘Free at last’: Canadian Michael Kovrig, wife speak about emotional return from China

Michael Kovrig is delighted to be back in Toronto and reunited with his family.Kovrig, a former diplomat, along with businessman Michael Spavor, touched down on home soil on Saturday following their release from China – in an apparent prisoner swap after Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was allowed to return to Shenzhen following a plea deal with the U.S.

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Plea deal in Meng Wanzhou case

Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou is returning to China and two Canadians held by the Chinese in widely believed tit-for-tat arrests are on their way home to Canada. The legal drama that has been playing out on both sides of the globe for nearly three years took a major turn Friday morning.

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Trudeau says Michael Spavor, Michael Kovrig ‘on their way home’

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Friday night that Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, two Canadians detained in China for more than 1,000 days had been released and were on their way home. Their detainment came just days after Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada over an extradition request by the U.S.

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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou reaches plea deal with U.S. Department of Justice

There has been a major development in the long-running case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. After weeks of negotiations between her legal team and the U.S.

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Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou expected to resolve U.S. charges

Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou is expected to make two court appearances today, Global News has learned: one in the U.S., and one in Canada.Both are expected to be significant and relate to reports of a possible deal between the U.S. and Meng, according to Reuters.In Meng’s initial arrest, Canadian officials were acting on a U.S.

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Singh not critical of Trudeau’s handling of 2 Michaels detained in China

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said he was not critical of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of the two Michaels case, as Sunday marked 1,000 days of detention of the Canadian men in China.Singh made the comments during an interview with The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson on Sunday in Quebec City, Que. Families and supporters of Kovrig and Spavor mark 1,000 days in detention Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were detained in China in December 2018 in what is largely viewed as retaliation for the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou for extradition to the United States on fraud charges.On Aug.

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Michael Kovrig’s trial set for Monday in Beijing

Canadian Michael Kovrig is set to stand trial on Monday for espionage charges, after spending more than two years detained in China in a move widely seen as retaliation for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou’s arrest in Vancouver.

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Awaiting the verdict in Michael Spavor’s case in China

A Chinese court did not deliver a verdict in the case of detained Canadian Michael Spavor. He’s been held for more than two years in what is widely-viewed as retaliation for Canada’s detention of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

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Dubai man arrested in Vancouver for allegedly helping terror-linked Iranian airline evade sanctions

sanction “for providing service to terrorist organizations.”Mahan Air was sanctioned a decade ago for allegedly transporting weapons and personnel for the Quds Force branch of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard.Under questioning in Vancouver, Sari told Canadian officials he knew about the sanctions but “needed the money” and “did not care what they were doing,” the Canadian official alleged at his detention hearing.After verifying that Sari was wanted by the FBI, the RCMP arrested him on U.S. charges, alleging he was a “principal player” in front companies that helped Mahan Air evade sanctions.“In particular, Mr.

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Michael Spavor’s trial ends without verdict, Canadian officials barred from attending

China took place behind closed doors, lasted just two hours and ended without a verdict, according to multiple local reports Friday.Canadian officials were barred from attending the trial of Michael Spavor, who was being tried in the Chinese city of Dandong on espionage charges after over two years in detention.Officials will also be barred from attending the upcoming trial of Michael Kovrig, a second Canadian who has been held for the same charges, Global Affairs Canada confirmed Thursday.The development comes as Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau confirmed on Wednesday that the Canadian Embassy in Beijing has been notified of the court dates for Spavor and Kovrig.

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Canada will not be pressured to release Meng Wanzhou, Trudeau says

Justin Trudeau says Canada will not be pressured to release Huawei CEO Meng Wanzhou just because China has detained two of its citizens.Trudeau’s remarks were according to a transcript of a wide-ranging interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd and Meet the Press, which was provided to Global News. The interview is set to air on Sunday.The two Canadian men — Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig — were arrested in China in 2018 on espionage charges, shortly after Meng was arrested by authorities in British Columbia on an extradition charge from the U.S.

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Pandemic diplomacy: Trudeau to meet virtually with U.S. secretary of state

Antony Blinken will visit virtually with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau as part of the Biden administration’s post-Trump fence-mending campaign.Blinken’s “virtual trips” to Canada and Mexico mark the secretary’s first bilateral video conferences since taking office.The visit follows up on Trudeau’s own virtual summit this week with the U.S. president, which produced a “road map” for collaboration on issues like climate change, the economy and COVID-19.

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‘Human beings are not bartering chips’: Biden calls for China to release 2 Michaels

Joe Biden said Canada and America will work together to secure the safe release of two Canadians — Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig — detained in China.Biden’s remarks came after a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Tuesday afternoon.“Human beings are not bartering chips,” Biden told reporters. “We’re going to work together until we get their safe return.

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Trump’s election loss nullifies Meng Wanzhou’s argument for release: attorney general

Donald Trump to win re-election nullifies an argument to release Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on the basis he was using her to get a better trade deal with China.In court documents released Thursday, David Lametti says Meng’s argument depends on public statements that were made by a president who is no longer in office about a possible intervention in the case that never occurred, purportedly to achieve a Chinese trade deal that has long since been successfully negotiated.“The changes in circumstances since the comments were made and this application was filed have served to remove the factual underpinning for the applicant’s arguments,” the written argument says.

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China hits Canada for statement against arbitrary detention

BEIJING – China lashed out at Canada on Thursday for joining the U.S. and 56 other countries in endorsing a declaration denouncing state-sponsored arbitrary detention of foreign citizens for political purposes.

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Huawei takes HSBC to UK court for docs in extradition fight

LONDON – Huawei took U.K. bank HSBC to court on Friday seeking documents the Chinese company says are key to its legal efforts to stop its chief financial officer from being extradited to the U.S. from Canada.

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Germany appeals for 2 Michaels’ release at final UN meeting, China says ‘good riddance’

Germany’s U.N. envoy, during his last scheduled U.N.

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Kovrig, Spavor have been indicted, tried after 2 years in prison, China says

Michael Kovrig draws strength from knowing that his fellow Canadians and people around the world are working to free him and Michael Spavor from their respective Chinese prison cells.As much as that matters, Kovrig’s wife Vina Nadjibulla says he is also subjecting himself to a strict regimen to strengthen his mind and body because he views that as the key to his survival.

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WSJ reports plea deal is in the works for Meng Wanzhou

The Wall Street Journal is reporting U.S. Justice officials and lawyers for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou are discussing a possible plea deal.

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Conservative MP dismisses China’s COVID-19 ‘excuse’ barring access to detained Canadians

China can no longer credibly use the “excuse” of COVID-19 to continue keeping Canadian diplomats from visiting Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, the Conservative foreign affairs critic says.Conservative MP Michael Chong also says this past week’s virtual consular visits to Kovrig and Spavor should have happened much sooner.“COVID-19 is an excuse that doesn’t hold water,” Chong said in an interview Sunday. China denies Canadians ‘arbitrarily’ detained in response to Meng Wanzhou arrest “The economy in China has largely reopened,” he added.

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Meng Wanzhou’s lawyers argue U.S. omitted or misstated facts to Canadian officials

Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was back in a Vancouver court Monday, where her lawyers are arguing the U.S. government omitted or misstated facts to Canadian officials ahead of Meng’s December 2018 arrest at YVR. Rumina Daya reports

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Huawei CFO case back in Canadian court on Monday

VANCOUVER, BC – A senior executive for Chinese communications giant Huawei Technologies will be in a Canadian courtroom Monday arguing her extradition to the U.S. should be halted because her rights have been violated.Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei’s founder and the company’s chief financial officer, at Vancouver’s airport in late 2018.

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Meng Wanzhou asks for extradition case to be stayed, says U.S. misled Canada

Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, have applied to a Canadian court seeking stays in the proceedings for her extradition to the United States, documents released on Thursday showed.The applications are based in part on what Meng’s lawyers allege was a destruction of the integrity of the judicial process by United States President Donald Trump and other senior members of the administration by their intention to use Meng “as a bargaining chip in a trade dispute.” Canada should ‘demand’ the U.S. drop all charges against Meng Wanzhou: Green Party Meng was arrested in December 2018 at the Vancouver International Airport on a warrant from the United States.She is accused by U.S.

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Caving to China’s demand to release Meng Wanzhou would put Canadians in danger: Trudeau

Justin Trudeau says heeding a recent call from some prominent Canadians to politically intervene to end the extradition proceedings against Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou “will imperil thousands of Canadians travelling in China and around the world.”More than a dozen former federal cabinet ministers and diplomats signed a letter earlier this week urging Trudeau to have his justice minister order an end to the proceedings, which are moving along under the terms of the extradition treaty between Canada and the U.S.

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China says Kovrig, Spavor may be freed if Canada ends Meng Wanzhou case

China has explicitly tied the fate of two detained Canadians to the release of Meng Wanzhou, joining the growing calls for Ottawa to intervene in the Huawei executive’s extradition.In a media briefing Wednesday, Zhao Lijian, the spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, cited comments made by Michael Kovrig’s wife to the CBC and Reuters saying Canada’s justice minister has the power to end Meng’s extradition to the United States “at any point.”“Such options are within the rule of law and could open up space for resolution to the situation of the two Canadians,” Zhao said, referring to Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who have now been detained for over 550 days.

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China to Canada PM: Stop 'irresponsible remarks' on spy case

BEIJING – China told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday to “stop making irresponsible remarks” after he said Beijing's decision to charge two Canadians with spying was linked to his country's arrest of a Chinese tech executive.The spying charges are “completely different” from the case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, a foreign ministry spokesman said. Meng was arrested on U.S.

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Canadians Michael Kovrig, Michael Spavor formally charged by China for alleged espionage

Chinese prosecutors have formally laid charges against Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, two Canadians who have been detained for well over a year, on allegations of espionage.Statements posted by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate on Friday say Kovrig is charged with spying on state secrets and intelligence for other countries abroad. Spavor is charged with spying on national secrets and providing those secrets outside China.Both statements said the charges were reached after “legal review.” The charges lay the path for Kovrig and Spavor to face a formal trial.

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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou lost a key fight in her extradition case. What happens next?

Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou lost a major fight in her extradition case Wednesday after a B.C. court ruled against both her and China’s wishes to drop proceedings.

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China can’t afford to retaliate against Canada for Meng Wanzhou decision, experts say

Wednesday’s legal setback in Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou‘s extradition battle drew sharp condemnation from both Huawei and the Chinese embassy in Ottawa, which once again called on Canada to immediately release her.

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B.C. judge rules against Meng Wanzhou in extradition hearing

Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has lost the latest challenge to her extradition order to the U.S. A B.C.

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Meng Wanzhou loses key court fight, must stay in B.C. to fight extradition

The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in a major decision Wednesday morning.

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B.C. Supreme Court set to release key ruling in Meng Wanzhou extradition case

The British Columbia Supreme Court is scheduled to release a key decision today in the American extradition case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

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Trudeau says China ‘doesn’t seem to understand’ Canada’s judicial independence

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is not surprised to see that China‘s ambassador directly linked the country’s arbitrary detention of two Canadians with the legal arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in a recent interview with Global News.

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