Two well-known victims are Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, two Canadians who have been arbitrarily detained in China since December 2018.

Days after Meng's arrest, the two Canadian men Spavor and Kovrig were arbitrarily detained in Chinese prisons for over 1,000 days in what is widely viewed as retaliation by Beijing.

The police couldn’t beat or torture them due to their Canadian citizenship. But the mother was detained and interrogated for around four days.

A Dubai man was detained in Vancouver for allegedly helping an Iranian airline evade U.S. sanctions, one month after the high-profile arrest of Huawei’s senior executive.

Two Canadian women have been arrested after arriving in Montreal following their repatriation from a camp in Syria that detains ISIS terrorists and their families, according to media outlets.

Nine days later, Kovrig and Spavor were detained in China. 

The Canadians could easily have failed to detain her, fumbled, warned her, or otherwise insured that she slipped away. But instead, they stood by an extradition treaty (which doesn't serve Canada's interests).

There's no need to have Canadian citizens detained overseas and imprisoned," Chang told The Canadian Press last spring when she visited Ottawa to plead with federal politicians for help in getting her parents released.

Former MP and justice minister Irwin Cotler speaks at a press conference in support of efforts to secure the release of Canadian citizen Qian Sun detained in China for her practice of Falun Gong, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 9, 2017.

Two well-known victims are Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, two Canadians who were released in September 2021 after being detained in China for over 1,000 days.

(L-R) Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, two Canadians who were detained in China following the arrest of Meng Wanzhou in Canada on a U.S. extradition request.

advocacy and communications officer of Hong Kong Watch, says the prime minister should use his visit to China as an opportunity to call for the immediate release of Hong Kong democracy activist Jimmy Lai and all Hong Kong political prisoners who have been “detained

The Canadian government must resolutely oppose this,” Cox said.

Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who were arbitrarily detained in China for over three years, received a standing ovation in the House of Commons ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden's address on March 24.

The three are not detained. Pillarova did not confirm how many people successfully crossed the border, other than to say "at least on one occasion (the three accused) helped people to cross into the United States."

Wang has been detained at the RCMP's headquarters in Montreal since his arrest. Tanya Du and Ke Yi in Montreal and The Canadian Press contributed to this report.

The two were detained in December 2018 in what was widely seen as retaliation for Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at the behest of the United States.

Canadians Michael Spavor (L) and Michael Kovrig are currently detained in China.

Not only were two Canadians in China detained in what is widely seen as retaliation for Meng's arrest, but China is now blocking imports of Canadian canola.

(The Canadian Press/Justin Tang) Among the issues he discussed, Mr.

West noted the case of the two Canadians who have been detained in China since last December.

citizens who had been arbitrarily detained in China since December 2018.

The two were detained in 2018 for more than 1,000 days by the Chinese regime in a retaliatory move for the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver as the result of a U.S. extradition warrant request carried out by Canadian law enforcement

Baxter, wearing a grey t-shirt, was detained while traveling in Syria last year, though it was not clear what he was doing there and the Canadian ambassador Emmanuelle Lamoureux said she could not give any details about the case.

Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat working for the non-governmental International Crisis Group, and Spavor, an entrepreneur specialising in exchanges with North Korea, were rounded up by Chinese authorities nine days after Canadian police arrested Huawei

Beijing’s response was to detain two Canadians—Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor—on accusations of endangering Chinese national security. Zhang Shoucheng—a physicist and professor at Stanford University in the U.S.

Trudeau was referring to Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, who have been detained in China since December 2018, after Canada arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. extradition warrant.

"We remain committed to taking every possible step to ensure the safety and security of Canadians," the departments said. The Canadian Press contributed to this report. 

In retaliation, China arbitrarily detained Kovrig and Spavor, keeping them in custody for more than 1,000 days.

The two Canadians were detained in 2018, following the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver. "My father is part of a broader pattern of the Chinese government charging foreign citizens on state security charges," Harrison Li said.