A retired Canadian police officer is refusing to testify at Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou’s extradition hearing in Vancouver, amid claims by Meng’s lawyers that Canadian authorities were involved in a covert evidence-gathering exercise against her at the behest of American law enforcement.
In Canada, their situation is widely seen as a reprisal action, their detention regarded as hostage-taking.Meng is under partial house arrest in Vancouver, living in one of her two homes in the city. Her extradition proceedings are expected to last well into next year, but appeals could drag out the process much longer.Also on Monday, a Canadian border officer came under cross-examination from another of Meng’s lawyers, Mona Duckett, as witness testimony resumed.
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