孟晚舟引渡案: 2018年12月1日被拘捕；2019年3月1日，加正式启动引渡程序；BC最高法院引渡听证2021年8月18日结束，法官未作出裁决；9月24日孟晚舟与美国政府达成协议，美国撤销引渡请求，BC法院终止引渡程序; 2022年12月1日美国撤销指控
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啊，一杆子给赶到9月23号啦
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路透渥太华6月4日 - 加拿大当局已将6月6日定为法庭日期，讨论引渡华为高管孟晚舟的技术问题。但加拿大司法部表示，她将不会出庭。
孟去年12月在美国的逮捕令下被温哥华警方拘留，目前仍在等待引渡程序何时正式启动。她原定于9月23日重返法庭。
司法部在一份声明中说，6月6日的听证会将把法庭的开庭日期定在已经商定的9月和10月日期之后。司法部补充说，还将讨论引渡案件的内容，但没有给出细节。
“这些法庭日期不是引渡听证会的开始，引渡听证会还没有安排。”
孟的律师上月表示，他们将寻求引渡程序的中止，部分依据是美国总统特朗普就此案发表的声明。她的律师表示，这让美国无权在加拿大寻求引渡。(完)
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Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, back right, who is out on bail and remains under partial house arrest after she was detained Dec. 1 at the behest of American authorities, is accompanied by a private security detail as she leaves her home to attend a court appearance in Vancouver, on Wednesday, May 8, 2019.
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OTTAWA – The case of Huawei senior executive Meng Wanzhou — which has drawn interest from around the world — will return to a Vancouver courtroom this week.
Canada’s relationship with Beijing has deteriorated rapidly since the December arrest of the Chinese telecom giant’s chief financial officer, which was carried out after an extradition request by the United States.
A statement from Canada’s Justice Department says the purpose of Thursday’s proceeding is to address additional applications in Meng’s extradition case and to set future court dates.
The statement says the new dates will not be for the actual extradition hearing — which has yet to be scheduled — and that Meng is not expected to attend Thursday’s proceeding in person.
The U.S. Department of Justice laid 13 criminal charges, including conspiracy, fraud and obstruction, against Huawei and Meng, who is the daughter of the company’s founder.
Her arrest has infuriated China, which has since detained two Canadians on allegations of endangering Chinese national security, sentenced two Canadians to death for drug-related convictions and blocked key agricultural shipments.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has sought international support in condemning China’s decision to, in his word, “arbitrarily” arrest Michael Kovrig, a Canadian diplomat on leave, and businessman Michael Spavor.
Meng’s defence team has said it plans to argue she shouldn’t be extradited to the U.S. because she hasn’t broken Canadian laws and that her arrest at Vancouver’s airport was unlawful.
Her lawyers have alleged Meng was the victim of two “abuses of power,” first by Canadian authorities and then by U.S. President Donald Trump. They intend to make an argument based on “double criminality,” related to different sanction and fraud laws in the U.S. and Canada.
The Extradition Act says that an alleged action would have to be criminal in Canada to justify sending someone to another country to face charges.
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Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou is facing possible extradition to the United States. The RCMP and CBSA claim her Charter rights were never violated. (Ben Nelms/CBC)
Lawyers for the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency claim agents have never examined electronic devices belonging to Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou.
Both agencies filed a joint response in B.C. Supreme Court Monday to Meng's civil suit claiming that her Charter rights were violated when she was detained and arrested at Vancouver International Airport on Dec. 1, 2018.
The court documents name two border services officers who searched Meng's luggage and seized her phones after she disembarked a flight from Hong Kong.
But they claim that while one officer wrote down the phone numbers and passwords, he didn't examine the contents of the electronic devices. And nor — allegedly — did police.
"The RCMP did not receive any information that the CBSA obtained in the course of the immigration and customs examinations of the plaintiff other than the piece of paper containing the phone numbers and passwords for the phones," the response to the civil claim reads.
"At no time has any RCMP officer examined the contents of the electronic devices or the phones."
Charges of conspiracy, fraud, obstruction
Meng was arrested at YVR at the behest of the United States, where prosecutors want her to stand trial for allegedly violating sanctions against Iran.
The 47-year-old is the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei.
She is charged, along with the company, with 13 counts of conspiracy, fraud and obstruction related to an alleged scheme to circumvent sanctions against Iran through a shadow company in Tehran that prosecutors say was actually controlled by Huawei.
Meng Wanzhou has two homes in Vancouver, including this $15 million mansion in Shaughnessy where she is currently living. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Meng, who was released on $10 million bail in December, is currently guarded around the clock. She pays the security bill and recently moved from her home in Dunbar to a second house in Shaughnessy where she is living while she awaits an extradition hearing.
She filed a civil suit against the CBSA and the RCMP in March, claiming her Charter rights were violated.
She claims the two agencies colluded with American officials to have her detained for three hours and examined her phones without informing her of the reason for her detention, before she was officially arrested.
'She intended to visit her house'
But in their response, the RCMP and the CBSA claim they did everything by the book, flagging Meng for secondary inspection and then searching her luggage while asking her about the purpose of her visit to Canada.
Meng's trip to Vancouver has previously been described as a brief layover on her way to Mexico City, but according to the response, she intended to clear customs.
The RCMP and CBSA claim Meng's electronic devices were seized but not searched on her detention at Vancouver's airport in December, 2018. (Alexander Bibik/Reuters)
"The plaintiff indicated that she was in transit to Mexico but that during her layover, she intended to visit her house in Vancouver to drop off some belongings," the response reads.
"Since the plaintiff was intending to visit her house in Vancouver, the plaintiff proceeded to the customs hall to claim her luggage."
The agencies claim that Meng never asked to speak with a lawyer during the time in CBSA custody before she was arrested. They also claim that the three hour wait was not unusual to clear secondary inspection on a Saturday.
'So that data could not be remotely deleted'
The response to the civil suit also claims neither the RCMP nor the U.S. Department of Justice requested or suggested that the CBSA officers take any course of action or line of questioning during Meng's detention.
But they claim they did ask the CBSA to "protect any mobile phones that the plaintiff might have by placing them in bags, which the RCMP supplied to the CBSA, so that any data could not be remotely deleted."
Meng's legal team are set to make a brief appearance in B.C. Supreme Court this Thursday in preparation for a longer set of procedures in September aimed at arguing for more disclosure around her detention and arrest.
Her lawyers have indicated that they plan to ask a judge to dismiss the entire proceedings as a result of alleged breaches of her rights. They also plan to argue that she is the victim of political interference by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Meng is not expected to attend the hearing this week.
In response to her civil claim, the RCMP and the CBSA say Meng's allegations against them are without merit. They are asking for her civil suit to be dismissed with costs.
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Canada's relationship with Beijing has deteriorated rapidly since the December 2018 arrest in Vancouver of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou on behalf of the United States.Lindsey Wasson/Reuters/File
Meng’s arrest has outraged Beijing and Chinese authorities have demanded her release. Since Meng’s arrest, China has detained two Canadians on allegations of endangering the country’s national security, sentenced two Canadians to death for drug-related convictions and rejected important agricultural shipments.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has sought international support in condemning China’s decision to, in his word, “arbitrarily” arrest Michael Kovrig, a Canadian diplomat on leave, and businessman Michael Spavor.
Last week on a visit to Ottawa, U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence linked the liberation of the two imprisoned Canadians to American trade talks with China.
The offer is significant because the Chinese government has rebuffed requests from Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland to speak with her counterpart.
Pence said U.S. President Donald Trump would push Chinese President Xi Jinping on Kovrig and Spavor at the G20 leaders’ summit later this month. Trudeau is also expected to travel to Japan for that summit.
The ambassador said he did not know if Xi and Trudeau plan to meet at the G20.
China’s Ambassador to Canada Lu Shaye Office of the Premier of Alberta/File
When it comes to Kovrig and Spavor, he said “the relevant departments of China will investigate the case, follow the Chinese laws, international practice and the consular agreement between China and Canada, and provide relevant treatment to them.”
Lu spoke at length about China’s trade war with the U.S., which has rattled international markets and poses a threat to the global economy. He listed numerous examples of how he said the American side has backtracked during bilateral negotiations that began over a year ago.
The decline of Canada-China relations has also led to some direct economic consequences for Canadian businesses.
China has been a huge market for Canadian canola seed, which is crushed to make cooking oil. The country imported $2.7 billion worth of Canadian canola seed last year, and any drawn-out blockage will hurt farmers, the industry and the national economy.
China has stonewalled requests for Canadian experts to examine Chinese evidence that two canola-seed shipments contained pests.
Lu said Chinese officials investigated the Canadian canola “based on regulations and science principles.”
“The Chinese side provided concrete documents about the investigation,” he said. “The relevant Chinese departments maintain no more contact with their Canadian counterparts. The documents have already been provided.”
In an interview last week, International Trade Minister Jim Carr said Canada wants to engage with China on the canola issue. In the meantime, Carr said, Canada had been trying to increase canola sales in other markets such as Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the United Arab Emirates.
Also on Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said China has stepped up inspections of Canadian pork products on the grounds that it’s concerned about smuggling and African swine fever — an illness that can be devastating among pigs. That’s in addition to previously stated Chinese concerns about the labelling of Canadian pork.
“We are working with producers and industry to underscore the importance of heightened quality assurance efforts to ensure there are no trade disruptions due to administrative errors,” Bibeau said in a statement.
The Trudeau government has come under pressure to follow the American lead and ban Huawei from supplying equipment for Canada’s next-generation 5G wireless networks. Pence raised the matter with Trudeau last week in front of reporters.
He argued letting Huawei participate would be against American security interests. Trudeau replied by reiterating that Canadian government would rely on evidence from its own security agencies before making a decision.
Huawei has denied allegations that its digital communications equipment is a tool of Chinese state espionage. Lu echoed that position Tuesday.
Lu was asked for his thoughts on the possibility of working with a Canadian government led by Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, who recently promised to take a harder line with China if he wins October’s federal election. The envoy said he would not comment on Canada’s domestic matters and said his country is willing to build relations with all political parties.
The case of Meng, the telecom giant’s senior executive, will return to a Vancouver courtroom on Thursday. It has drawn interest from around the world.
A statement from Canada’s Justice Department said Tuesday that the purpose of the proceeding is to address additional applications in Meng’s extradition case and to set future court dates.
The new dates will not be for the actual extradition hearing, which has yet to be scheduled, and Meng is not expected to attend Thursday’s proceeding in person, the statement says.
The U.S. Department of Justice laid 13 criminal charges, including conspiracy, fraud and obstruction, against Huawei and Meng, who is the daughter of the company’s founder.
— With files from Aleksandra Sagan
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The relationship between China and Canada has deteriorated since Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou last December for possible extradition to the United States. In an interview with the Canadian Press on Tuesday, Lu said Beijing is willing to meet Ottawa halfway to improve bilateral relations, but said “The Chinese side is not responsible for this issue.”
Meng’s arrest outraged the Chinese government, which has demanded her release. Since the arrest, China has detained two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, claiming they are national security threats. It has also sentenced two Canadians to death on drug charges and has blocked Canadian canola imports.
In January, McCallum resigned as ambassador to China at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s request after saying it would be “great for Canada” if the U.S. dropped its extradition request against the Huawei executive. Since then, Canada has not had a permanent ambassador in Beijing.
Lu has made a series of damning remarks about Canada-China relations in recent months. In a speech in May, he said the relationship between the two countries had hit “rock bottom.”
“It saddens us that the current China-Canada relations are ‘at a freezing point’ and face huge difficulties,” he said. “The knots shall be untied by those who got them tied.”
In January, Lu penned an explosive op-ed in the Hill Times after Canada recruited its Western allies to join in its calls for the release of the two Canadian detainees, whose arrests are widely seen as retaliation for Canada’s detention of Meng. Lu claimed Western countries like the U.S. and Britain were adopting a double standard in their support for Canada.
“The reason why some people are used to arrogantly adopting double standards is due to Western egotism and white supremacy,” Lu wrote. “What they have been doing is not showing respect for the rule of law, but mocking and trampling the rule of law.”
Still, despite the fraught relationship between the two countries, Lu had a friendly meeting with Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil in Halifax last week, telling journalists that McNeil is a “great friend” and that Nova Scotia is at the forefront of cooperation between China and Canadian provinces. McNeil did not raise the issue of the two Canadian detainees during their meeting, despite a request from Freeland’s office to do so.
Canada is also facing a difficult decision about whether to ban Chinese tech giant Huawei from its 5G network. On Tuesday, CTV’s Power Play aired an interview with Lu in which he said that national security concerns about Huawei are “unfounded” and “baseless.”
“Canada is (an) independent country, and you have institutions very competent to evaluate this problem,” he said.
Last month, the Trump administration blocked American companies from providing software and components to Huawei over concerns the Chinese government could use its technology to spy on U.S. companies, and has been pushing its allies to follow suit. Trudeau has said Canada will make its own decision based on evidence from Canadian security agencies.
Saint-Jacques said it could be “good” for Canada that Lu is departing soon, because it could make it easier for a new Canadian ambassador to China to be accredited in Beijing. Although he said he is unaware of a new candidate for McCallum’s job, he made the point that China may be less likely to stonewall a new Canadian envoy — as might be expected during a freeze in relations — if a Chinese diplomat is waiting for similar recognition in Ottawa.
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