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Meng Wanzhou during her house arrest in Vancouver in 2021. On December 1, 2018, Meng Wanzhou, the board deputy chairperson and daughter of the founder of the Chinese multinational technology corporation Huawei, was detained upon arrival at Vancouver International Airport by Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers for questioning, which lasted three hours.
US and Canadian authorities colluded in an illegal detention, search and interrogation of Meng Wanzhou, which they then tried to cover up in an abuse of process that can only be remedied by ...
Meng Wanzhou was born Ren Wanzhou on 13 February 1972 [18] in Chengdu, Sichuan province. [ 6 ] [ 19 ] She is the daughter of Ren Zhengfei and his first wife, Meng Jun, who is the daughter of Meng Dongbo, a former deputy secretary of East China Military and Administrative Committees and deputy provincial governor of Sichuan.
Begun in 2018, the case led to the detention in Canada of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, whose father founded the company. Charges against her were dismissed in 2022.
Canada was obliged to arrest Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver's airport more than two years ago, but her detention had now been revealed as unlawful, the Huawei Technologies executive's lawyer told her ...
Michael Kovrig (left) and Michael Spavor (right) In December 2018, Canadian nationals Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig were taken into custody in China. It appeared that their detention on December 10 and subsequent indictment under the state secrets law were linked to the arrest of Huawei's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, in Canada on December 1. [1]
US prosecutors pursuing Meng Wanzhou on fraud charges had acted "honourably", and claims that they tried to mislead her extradition case in Vancouver were unsubstantiated, a Canadian government ...
The Chinese ambassador to Canada announced that Canada's arrest of Meng was a blatant violation of human rights, and China expressed anger and demanded that Canada release Meng immediately. [19] According to information at a bail hearing on December 7, the United States had accused Meng of fraud and violations of U.S. sanctions on Iran. [20]