China vs Canada: heavy sentences of Canadian citizens confirmed in China
The clash between China and Canada is getting harder and harder and affects the lives of North American citizens who were in the other country's territory.
A Canadian citizen, Michael Spavor, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for "Espionage," a sentence that infuriated Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and joins other politically motivated convictions.
Why this judicial clash between China and Canada? For the Canadian arrest of Meng Wangzhou, the financial director of Huawei, whom the US accuses of having had trafficking with Tehran and whose extradition they have requested. Canada sees this case as nothing more than retaliation for this house arrest, but the consequences are very gracious. Another Canadian citizen is currently under sentence of death for drug trafficking. This foreigner had already been sentenced to eleven years in the first degree, but after Wangzhou's arrest his sentence was commuted to death appeal, and is now blocked only for covid-19. The latest appeal against the death penalty was rejected only yesterday.
This confrontation is experienced on the skin of these Canadian prisoners, and the position of any Canadian in China is very risky. On the one hand, fortunately, the almost total travel block with Covid has greatly reduced the number, but this tension will not be resolved until Wangzhou is either freed or extradited to the US. In the second case, Canadian prisoners cannot expect anything good.
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