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Canada's Trudeau Vows to Work with Global Allies to Convince China to Return Two Detained Citizens

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Canada's Trudeau Vows to Work with Global Allies to Convince China to Return Two Detained Citizens

15:10 GMT 19.06.2020 (Updated: 15:40 GMT 19.06.2020)

© AFP 2023 / JASON REDMONDProtesters hold photos of Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, who are being detained by China, outside British Columbia Supreme Court, in Vancouver, on March 6, 2019, as Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou appears in court. - Meng Wanzhou, the Chinese telecom executive at the center of an escalating row between Ottawa and Beijing, was due in court in Canada to get a date for a hearing into a US extradition request. Meng's arrest in Vancouver in December on a US warrant infuriated China, which arrested several Canadians days later in what was widely seen as retaliation. A Canadian judge on Wednesday who set May 8 for the start of a hearing into a US extradition request.

Protesters hold photos of Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, who are being detained by China, outside British Columbia Supreme Court, in Vancouver, on March 6, 2019, as Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou appears in court. - Meng Wanzhou, the Chinese telecom executive at the center of an escalating row between Ottawa and Beijing, was due in court in Canada to get a date for a hearing into a US extradition request. Meng's arrest in Vancouver in December on a US warrant infuriated China, which arrested several Canadians days later in what was widely seen as retaliation. A Canadian judge on Wednesday who set May 8 for the start of a hearing into a US extradition request. - Sputnik International

The arrested Canadians - diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor - have been charged with espionage by Beijing. They were arrested in China in December 2018 shortly after the detention of Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou.

Ottawa is very disappointed with China's decision to charge the two detained Canadian citizens with espionage and will work with international allies to convince Beijing to send the two men back, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday.

China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate announced earlier in the day that the two Canadians, diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor, have been formally charged with espionage.

People hold signs calling for China to release Canadian detainees Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig during an extradition hearing for Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou at the B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Sputnik International

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Two Canadians Arrested by China Charged With Espionage

19 June 2020, 05:39 GMT

The charges come as a Canadian court authorised the extradition of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou to the United States.

Meng was arrested in Canada just days before Beijing detained Kovrig and Spavor. The Huawei official is accused of fraudulent financial schemes violating US sanctions against Iran.

Beijing has repeatedly stressed that Meng is a victim of a political game unfolding against the backdrop of the tensions between the United States and China.