Ottawa : Two Canadians imprisoned in what China's Western critics branded"hostage diplomacy" headed home on Friday after being released, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.
The pair -- former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor -- had"left Chinese airspace, and they're on their way home," he told a news conference in Ottawa.The Two Michaels, as they have become known in Canada, had been arrested and imprisoned on espionage charges in the days after Canada detained Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.
The Canadian judge's move followed an agreement she made with the US Justice Department to suspend fraud charges against her. Both Kovrig and Spavor were put on trial in March of this year. In August, Spavor was sentenced to 11 years in prison, while there had been no decision in Kovrig's case. Trudeau previously denounced Spavor's sentence as"unacceptable and unjust," and said the charges were"trumped up." - AFP
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