China arrests former Canadian diplomat and Canadian businessman

Louis Huang holds a placard calling for China to release Canadian detainees Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig. Picture: REUTERS/LINDSEY WASSONChina said on Thursday that it has formally arrested two Canadians who have been detained for months on national security grounds, in a case that has inflamed tensions between Ottawa and Beijing.

“Canada strongly condemns their arbitrary arrest as we condemned their arbitrary detention on December 10,” the Canadian foreign ministry said in a statement to The Globe and Mail newspaper. Days after Meng’s extradition was announced, China said it suspected Kovrig, who works for the International Crisis Group think-tank, of spying and stealing state secrets and alleged that Spavor, who organised trips to North Korea, had provided him with intelligence.Both men have been denied access to lawyers and allowed only monthly consular visits. The latest such visit came earlier this week.

A group of Canadian parliamentarians had earlier complained to Chinese officials that the two have been denied access to lawyers, and remain in “completely unacceptable” detention conditions.

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