A friend of Kim, Canadian businessman Michael Spavor, was recently detained in China on suspicion of "harming its national security," according to the BBC.

Those detained after crossing the border have included Mexicans, Indians and others, according to Homeland Security and U.S. justice officials. Mr.

The two had then been detained in China for over two years, in a case widely seen as retaliation for Canada's arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzho on a U.S. extradition request.

Kovrig and Spavor were detained in China in December 2018, shortly after Canadian authorities arrested Meng on a U.S. extradition request.

This January, a Canadian citizen detained in 2014 was charged with spying and stealing state secrets, despite him and his wife having been released on bail last year.

“China strongly urges the Canadian side to immediately release the detained person, and earnestly protect their lawful, legitimate rights, otherwise Canada must accept full responsibility for the serious consequences caused,” according to a Dec. 8 statement

(The Epoch Times) Sun Qian, the Canadian citizen whose plight Lin is highlighting, is just one of hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners who have been arbitrarily detained for their spiritual beliefs.

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in Chinese prison, including we Canadians here.”

As a result, Canadian public opinion of the United States is at its lowest since at least 2002, with recent polls indicating 64 percent of Canadians now have an unfavorable view.

Sun Qian, a Falun Dafa adherent and Canadian citizen detained in China since February 2017, in an undated photo.

A Chinese-Canadian businesswoman from Vancouver who became a citizen in 2007, Sun was detained by the authorities last February during a visit to China.

Canada-China ties turned icy a year ago after Vancouver police detained Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. arrest warrant.

Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were arbitrarily detained in Chinese prisons for over 1,000 days, nine days after Huawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver on Dec. 1, 2018, on a U.S. extradition request

The CCP has used the excuse that the ICG violated China’s foreign NGO law to justify the detainment of Kovrig and another Canadian—businessman Michael Spavor. However, Kovrig and the ICG may not have violated the law.

Chinese-Canadians are being detained, bribed, and blackmailed when they return to China. Canadian news outlet The Globe and Mail, interviewed six individuals who said the Chinese regime tried forcing them to spy on Canada.

The agency said Canadians, particularly those holding dual Canadian−Iranian citizenship, were at risk of being arbitrarily questioned, arrested, and detained.

An international investigation involving the cooperation of London's Metropolitan Police, the New York Police Department (NYPD), and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police resulted in the arrests of Choudary and a Canadian national last year.

(The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld) Tensions between Ottawa and Beijing are at an all-time high, with Canadian citizens still detained in China following the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver last December, and many Canadian exports to

Lawyers for the Attorney General of Canada are asking the Court of Appeal for Ontario to order that 62-year-old Deepak Paradkar be detained until his extradition hearing.

Cantopop singer Denise Ho has been released on bail after being arbitrarily detained by Hong Kong police during the city government’s crackdown on a pro-democracy media outlet.

Wu, 33, was detained in July 2021 after an 18-year-old Chinese student publicly accused him of inducing her and other girls, some younger than 18, to have sex with him.

Kovrig and Spavor were detained in China shortly after Meng's arrest in Vancouver on Dec. 1, 2018, on a U.S. extradition request. Their detentions are widely seen as instances of Beijing's "hostage diplomacy."

The preliminary ruling did not examine the applicants’ core claims under sections 7 and 9 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which protect Canadians’ right to life, liberty and security and their right not to be arbitrarily detained, respectively.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has not confirmed whether the person authorities detained during a traffic stop had been released.

Moscow has summoned Canadian ambassador Alison LeClaire, a move meant to formally register Russia’s growing ire with Canada.

In May 2019, Chinese authorities formally charged the two Canadians with spying. 

“Financial crimes take many forms, and they are rising with devastating impacts on millions of Canadians—retired Canadians who spent a lifetime saving carefully are losing thousands of dollars in seconds, sometimes just for answering a call from the wrong

With files from the Canadian Press.

In the climate of rising diplomatic tension between China and Western countries, an alarming number of U.S. and Canadian citizens in China have encountered trouble with the communist authorities there—with some being detained and others deported.