The espionage trial has begun for the second Canadians detained in China.

The trial of ดาวน์โหลด slotxo android Canadian Michael Kovrig, who was detained in China more than two years ago for espionage charges, began on Monday, with ties between Ottawa and Beijing in a void.The trial comes days after another Canadian man's closed-door trial, with the pair being detained in retaliation for a Canadian arrest following a U.S. extradition warrant by Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. A On Monday, police blocked an area outside a Beijing court as Canadian diplomats were denied entry and dismissed.Kovrig, a former diplomat, was detained in 2018 and was formally charged last June of spying at the same time as his compatriot Michael Spavour.

Jim Nickel, charge of the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, told reporters the trial had already started and the diplomat's access was "denied".We are overwhelmed by the lack of access and transparency in the legal process," he said.Court officials told reporters that entry was not permitted because the trial was a national security case.
Representatives for 26 countries were gathered outside the building on Monday, Nickel said, and is "Lend Voice" for immediate release of Kovrig.The United States "was deeply concerned that there was no minimum procedural protection afforded by two Canadian citizens,

William Klein, acting deputy chief of the US Embassy mission in Beijing, told outside court media.Canadian diplomats were also barred from attending Spavour's trial in the northern city of Dandong on Friday, which lasted less than three hours and ended without any announcement of the decision.Following a closed hearing, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned the detention of the two men as saying: "It is totally unacceptable, as is the lack of transparency in these court proceedings.


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The case has sent ties between Ottawa and Beijing to a lowest point in decades. Court days for the two Canadians come from the extradition ruling for Meng entering the final month and alongside heated high-level talks between the United States and China in Alaska.Meng, who has founding father and CEO of Huawei, Ren Zhengfei, has fought extradition to the United States on charges that she and the company violated sanctions on Iran and other U.S. laws.Guy Saint-Jacques The former Canadian ambassador to China told AFP that he expected Kovrig's trial to be short as well.China hasn't tried to make this look like a real trial because evidence has not been shared with the defendants and the judge hasn't even spent time in the trial," he said before the trial.

It is merely confirmation that this process is predetermined by the Communist Party and that this is a political case.China's judicial system punishes most of the people tried and both face life sentences if found guilty of "espionage" and "state secret".They have had little contact with the outside world since their detention and the virtual consular visit returned in October after nine months, which authorities said was caused by the coronavirus outbreak.Beijing insisted that detention of the two Canadians was lawful while calling Meng's case "a" legal detention. " "A real political event"The message to the United States is, if you want to help Canadians, make sure Meng is returned to China asap," said Saint-Jacques.
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