VANCOUVER—The Supreme Court of British Columbia has dismissed an application for a publication ban from Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou on new evidence that her legal team wants to introduce in her fight against extradition to the United States. Legal counsel for a media consortium including The Canadian Press that opposed the ban advises…
Meng Loses Publication Ban Request on HSBC Materials Obtained via Hong Kong Court
Huawei CFO’s Team Expected to Ask Judge for Adjournment in Final Extradition Hearings
VANCOUVER—Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou are expected to ask a B.C. Supreme Court judge today to delay the final leg of hearings in her extradition case. The court said in a statement last week that the Huawei executive’s application for an adjournment would be heard this morning. The hearings were scheduled to begin on April 26…
Huawei, HSBC Agree on Document Deal for Extradition Case
HONG KONG—Chinese telecommunications equipment firm Huawei said Monday that it has reached an agreement with HSBC in Hong Kong to obtain documents that its chief financial office Meng Wanzhou hopes will help prevent her extradition to the United States. Meng, who was detained in Canada in 2018 at the behest of U.S. authorities, has been…
Crown Says It Was Reasonable for Border Screening to Precede Meng’s Arrest
VANCOUVER—A lawyer for Canada’s attorney general says it was entirely reasonable for border officers to question Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou before her arrest in 2018. Diba Majzub told the B.C. Supreme Court that Meng’s arrival at a port of entry created a unique context where both the RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency had mandates…
Meng’s Lawyers Haven’t Established ‘Necessary Prejudice’ to Justify Stay: Crown
VANCOUVER—A lawyer for Canada’s attorney general is asking a B.C. Supreme Court judge to “step out of the weeds” and focus on a legal test for assessing whether Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was subjected to an abuse of process during her arrest. Robert Frater says the judge has been presented with two “vastly different narratives”…
Spavor Tried on Spy Charges in China, but No Verdict Announced
DANDONG, China—China put on trial one of two Canadians detained for more than two years in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a senior Chinese telecom executive. Canada said its consular officials were refused permission to attend the proceedings against Michael Spavor, an entrepreneur with North Korea−related business, who is accused by China of stealing…
Canadian Tried on Spy Charges in China, but No Verdict Announced
DANDONG, China—China put on trial one of two Canadians detained for more than two years in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a senior Chinese telecom executive. Canada said its consular officials were refused permission to attend the proceedings against Michael Spavor, an entrepreneur with North Korea−related business, who is accused by China of stealing…
Meng’s Judge Questions Thoroughness of Alleged ‘Covert Criminal Investigation’
VANCOUVER—A B.C. Supreme Court judge is questioning why border officers didn’t question Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou more rigorously if their exam was actually a covert criminal investigation, as her lawyers say. Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes says a few questions asked by border officials touched on topics that her lawyers say were relevant to a…
Trudeau Rejects Chinese Ambassador’s Claim That Detention of ‘Two Michaels’ Unconnected to Meng’s Arrest
March 4, 2021
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has strongly refuted a claim by China’s ambassador to Canada that “there’s no connection” between the detention of two Canadian citizens in China and Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. “It is obvious that the two Michaels were arrested on trumped-up national security charges days after we fulfilled our extradition…
Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou Back in Canadian Court as US Extradition Case Proceeds
March 1, 2021
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Lawyers for a senior executive for Chinese communications giant Huawei Technologies were in court Monday arguing evidence should be introduced that they claim undermines the case to have their client extradited to the United States. But a Canadian government lawyer representing the United States in the extradition case has said that the evidence…
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