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.
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Blinken has endorsed the declaration and called on countries around the world "to put an end to this practice, to release those detained under such conditions and to respect the rule of law and human rights.''
Out of 48 suspected shipments detained by the border agency between 2020 and late 2025, 37 were released, two were prohibited, seven were re-exported, and one was abandoned.
The two were being detained in relation to the U.S. extradition request and house arrest in Canada of Huawei executive Meng Wangzhou.
Mr. Dong, who now sits as an Independent, has denied this allegation and sued Global for defamation.
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Canadian investigators are hunting for the wreckage of the mysterious flying object shot down by a U.S. fighter jet over Yukon territory, Prime
So, for example, a female refugee from Syria being detained in Lebanon and who is therefore at risk of being deported could be a case that lands on a Canadian visa officer's desk.
Known as the “two Michaels,” they were arbitrarily detained in China for over 1,000 days in retaliation for Canada's arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. warrant to have her extradited to face charges of fraud.
About a week earlier, Calgary Pastor Artur Pawlowski and his brother, David Pawlowski, were arrested after holding a church service, and pastor James Coates of Edmonton’s GraceLife Church was detained in February.
These include Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas and former Canadian Member of Parliament David Kilgour, who published their first investigative report in 2006, using 52 means of evidence to document the ongoing crime of organ harvesting in mainland
Reports revealed that 1 to 2 million Uyghurs, who are arbitrarily detained in re-education camps, long with Falun Gong practitioners, have been subjected to systematic rape, physical abuses, and forced sterilization.
The Magnitsky bill is named after Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who uncovered the largest tax fraud in his country’s history and was subsequently detained for a year in a Moscow prison and eventually died under torture in 2009.
Since then, millions of practitioners have been detained inside prisons, labor camps, and other facilities, with hundreds of thousands tortured while incarcerated, according to the Falun Dafa Information Center.
"I can tell you that anecdotal evidence, again open source, indicates that at least three persuasion to return operations have taken place on Canadian soil," she told CACN on March 20.
