China News Service, Toronto, October 26 (Reporter Yu Ruidong) Huawei Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou appeared again in the High Court of British Columbia, Canada, in Vancouver on October 26, local time. Participate in the hearing of his extradition case.

In this round of hearings, the prosecution and the defense will cross-examine the witnesses regarding whether there was any procedural abuse during the detention of Meng Wanzhou by Canadian law enforcement agencies.

  Within the five days reserved for this round of hearings in the court, relevant witnesses from the Canadian Border Services Agency and the RCMP will be questioned in court.

Meng Wanzhou’s lawyers believed that during Meng’s detention, U.S. government officials instructed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Border Services Agency officials to conduct deceptive and improper searches, thus violating the court order and Meng’s response. Enjoy the basic rights.

  The defense believes that two hours before Meng Wanzhou flew to Vancouver on December 1, 2018, the RCMP and the Border Services Agency changed their original plan of "immediate arrest" and instead used special immigration inspection powers to detain Meng. The electronic device of Meng was illegally "interrogated" without informing him of his charter rights and the absence of lawyers.

The defense believes that law enforcement officers disguised a criminal investigation of illegal evidence collection as a routine customs inspection, with the purpose of helping the United States illegally collect evidence against Huawei without the presence of a lawyer.

  The Canadian Ministry of Justice recently provided a statement to the media that this round of hearing is not a trial, and the judge will not make a ruling at the end of this hearing.

The testimony in the hearing can be used in subsequent debates about procedural abuse.

  Huawei Canada said in a brief statement issued on the 26th that it believes that the Canadian judicial system can maintain integrity and ensure justice.

Huawei has always had great confidence in Meng Wanzhou's innocence and will continue to support her in revealing the truth behind the violation of her rights.

  The court has set the time for the next round of hearings from November 23 to 27, when the remaining witnesses will be arranged to testify in court.

  The team of Meng Wanzhou’s lawyers has always believed that the extradition case has procedural abuse, so the extradition procedure should be suspended and three branch lines should be set up to appeal.

The first is to prove the political nature of the case by a high-level U.S. politician's statement; the second is to demonstrate that there was procedural abuse in the detention of Meng by law enforcement agencies at Vancouver International Airport; the third is to point out the case records and other documents provided by the United States to Canadian officials Misleading, with "major omissions and misstatements".

  The Canadian court has ruled in early October that it supports the Canadian Ministry of Justice not to provide most of the documents involving "privacy privileges" to the Bangladeshi lawyers, including related e-mails between Canadian and US government departments.

  According to the current court schedule, the hearing on whether the procedural abuse in this case is established will be held from February 16 to March 5, 2021.

The extradition hearing will be held from April 26 to 30, 2021.

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