Chinese court sentences Canadian to 11 years in prison for espionage

BEIJING, Aug. 11 (YPA) – A Chinese court convicted Canadian businessman Michael Spavor of espionage and sentenced him to 11 years in prison and said he will be deported, but it was not clear when,

This comes as lawyers in Canada representing the chief financial officer of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei make a final push to convince a court there not to extradite her to the United States.

On Tuesday, a Chinese supreme court upheld the death sentence of another Canadian national for drug trafficking in one of several legal cases that damaged Ottawa-Beijing relations.

Chinese authorities arrested businessman Spavor in China days after Meng’s arrest in Canada.

Chinese authorities charged him with espionage in June 2019 and began his trial in March.

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