“How the CCP behaves toward people it governs, detains, or dislikes is a preview for how it’s likely to deal with other citizens and countries it acquires power over,” he said in a post on X.

On Dec. 12, Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale confirmed the detention of former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig. He was reportedly detained in Beijing on Dec. 11 during one of his regular visits to the city.

Police detain a Falun Gong practitioner in Tiananmen Square as a crowd watches in Beijing on Oct. 1, 2000. (Chien-min Chung/AP Photo) The report points out that Beijing's foreign interference has evolved to become "more hidden and invisible."

Meng's team will argue in an upcoming phase of hearings that her charter rights were violated when she was detained and questioned by border officials for three hours before being informed of her arrest.

It's not the first time a Canadian soccer team has been involved in a drone controversy involving an international rival's training session.

Meng’s arrest by the RCMP at the Vancouver airport in December 2018 placed Canada in the middle of rising tensions between the U.S. and China, and two Canadians, ex−diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor, were detained in China nine days

Whelan, who holds American, British, Canadian and Irish passports, was sentenced in 2020 to 16 years in jail after being convicted of spying. He denied the charge.

"The practice of arbitrarily detaining individuals to exercise leverage over foreign governments is completely unacceptable. People should never be used as bargaining chips," he said.

Two Canadians in China, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, were detained by the regime shortly after Meng's arrest, in a move widely believed to be retaliatory in nature in the hopes of pressuring Ottawa for Meng's release.

In 2014, shortly after Canada acted on an extradition request from the United States to detain Chinese national Su Bin over charges of stealing sensitive military information, Julia and Kevin Garratt, a Canadian couple who lived in China for decades,

The Canadian Press contributed to this report.

Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat who now works for think tank Crisis Group, and Michael Spavor, a Canadian entrepreneur who has worked extensively in North Korea, were detained by Beijing on national security grounds on Dec. 10.

The two were detained days after Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies, at the request of the United States.

"The [Canadian Army] deployed a team of four observers from the Canadian Army Advanced Warfare Centre to China," read a Twitter post by the Canadian Army on Feb. 9, 2018.

The Canadian diplomat said Kovrig was being held in Beijing, and neither man has had access to a member of their family since they were first detained.

He’s one of the men who put Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor in jail and organized Beijing’s interference in Canadian elections, spying on a prominent Member of Parliament and intimidating Chinese Canadians.

A June 2016 report by David Kilgour, former Canadian secretary of state for Asia-Pacific; David Matas, a Canadian human rights lawyer; and Ethan Gutmann, an American investigative journalist, estimated that China could be performing between 60,000 to

Kurmasheva as a wrongfully detained U.S. citizen.

Teresa Youngblut, 21, faces two weapons charges in connection with the death of Border Patrol Agent David Maland, 44, who died Jan. 20 during the shootout in Coventry, a small town about 20 miles from the Canadian border.

The Canadian Press contributed to this report.

"But make no mistake: we will always defend Canadians and Canadian interests."

Jennifer Cowan and The Canadian Press contributed to this report.

From 2020 to late 2025, just 48 shipments were detained, and only two of them were ultimately prohibited.

For more than a quarter century, practitioners of the meditation discipline, whose core principles are truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, have been illegally arrested and detained by the CCP and have experienced abuses such as sexual assault and

A Canadian government website says the practice is contrary to international law and undermines friendly relations between states, global cooperation, travel and trade.

Beijing has denied allegations about internment camps that have reportedly arbitrarily detained over 1 million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims living in the Xinjiang region, insisting that the camps are for providing vocational training.

Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor remain jailed in China, and last week a fourth Canadian was given the death penalty on drug charges in that country since Canada detained Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in 2018.

Additionally, more than one million Uyghurs are being detained in internment camps—facilities the communist regime has defended as “vocational training schools.”

Two Canadian citizens in China, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, were detained by the regime shortly after Meng's arrest, a move widely seen as an attempt by the regime to put pressure on Ottawa for Meng's release.

That year, Global Affairs Canada called on the country to "immediately release" detained women's rights and democracy activists.