Global News published this video item, entitled “Canadian officials not granted permission to attend Michael Kovrig’s trial in China” – below is their description.
Canadian officials will not be granted permission to attend the trial of Michael Kovrig on Monday, who has been detained on espionage charges in China for more than two years.
A former Canadian ambassador to China, Guy Saint-Jacques, says Michael Spavor’s connection to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will likely be used against Kovrig during the trial. Another Canadian detained in China, Michael Spavor, faced his own trial last week.
The arrest has been seen as retribution for the detainment of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at the request of the U.S. Abigail Bimman reports.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
China is the third largest country in the world by area and the largest country in the world by population. Properly known as the People’s Republic of China, the political territory of the country includes Tibet and Hong Kong. The capital is Beijing.
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is a Chinese multinational technology corporation headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It designs, develops, and sells telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics.
Kim Jong-un is a North Korean politician who has been the supreme leader of North Korea since 2011 and leader of the Workers’ Party of Korea since 2012. He is the second child of Kim Jong-il, who was North Korea’s second Supreme Leader from 1994 to 2011, and Ko Yong-hui.