A Canadian judge has denied Huawei’s executive Meng Wanzhou’s request to admit a number of confidential documents. Meng is Huawei’s chief financial officer, was under arrest on a US warrant in 2018’s December during a stop-off in the city of Canada, Vancouver.
The chief financial officer is charged with bank fraud related to defilements of sanctions from the United States against Iran and has been fighting deportation ever since.
Recently, the justice department of Canada proclaimed that Vancouver’s Supreme Court Justice Heather Holmes had supported a majority of Canada’s privilege entitlements related to the request of documents.
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Her lawyers had required access to 100s of documents related to mostly communications amid agencies of Canada and the United States before and after she was arrested, arguing that they could encompass proof of an unproven conspiracy to gather evidence and cross-examine her, in violation of her rights.
Specifically, they pointed to her detention and questioning without a lawyer over the 3 hours after she landed from a flight from Hong Kong, but before she was arrested, her electronic devices were seized.
If it is proven, the allegations can result in a stay of the extradition records.
The government lawyers from Canada had released a slew of documents in the coming months, but many were heavily redrafted. They have rejected any plot and claimed solicitor-client and lawsuit privilege in declining to hand over more files.
Also, the number of documents sought was carved down to nineteen, consisting of general emails among or between lawyers of the justice department and the Canada Border Services Agency.
The case has added to hard strain in the ties of China-United States and made an unparalleled rift between the 2 countries; Canada and China.
9 days after Meng was arrested, China imprisoned a former Canadian diplomat and a businessman as vengeance over Meng.
Espionage charges were filed against the 2 in the month of June, soon after Meng’s 1st legal holdup, when her bid to have the case thrown out. It was argued that the US accusations were not crimes in Canada. It was defeated.
Meng is still under house arrest in Vancouver while the repatriation case (which is due to close in 2021’s April) is heard.
She is expected to come in court for the coming stages of proceedings which are going to be held on 26th October.
