The Meng Wanzhou case opens again to debate the "procedural abuse" complaint
On March 1, local time, Meng Wanzhou, vice chairman and chief financial officer of Huawei, appeared in the High Court of British Columbia, Canada in Vancouver.
Beginning on this day, the court will debate the first branch of the “procedural abuse” complaint raised by Meng Wanzhou’s lawyer, that is, politically driven, for five consecutive days.
This stage is called the court debate stage and is different from the previous court hearing stage.
As the name suggests, the court debate stage is mainly for the prosecution and defense lawyers to make statements about the case, while the hearing stage is mainly for hearing information provided by witnesses.
However, at this stage, there will still be hearings, because the previous hearings were actually only hearings on the second branch, that is, illegal detention.
Prior to this, Huawei Canada issued a statement stating that in this stage of the court debate, Meng Wanzhou’s defense lawyer will propose four branches against extradition, namely: political drive, illegal detention, major omissions and errors. Statement, violation of international customary law.
1. Political drive means that during Trump’s presidency of the United States, he publicly declared that he would use the extradition case of Meng Wanzhou as a bargaining chip to force China to accept US terms of trade and obtain political and economic benefits.
2. Illegal detention means that the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the Federal Police (RCMP), under the instigation of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), arbitrarily changed the court’s immediate arrest order and conducted an illegal search of Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver Airport. Concurrently take confessions, illegally provide such information to the outside world, and so on.
These are all violations of Meng Wanzhou's charter rights.
3. Major omissions and misstatements refer to the fact that the legal documents concerning the Meng Wanzhou case provided by the U.S. Department of Justice to the Canadian courts deleted key evidence and distort the facts, thereby misleading the Canadian courts.
4. Violation of international customary law means that the US's allegations against Meng Wanzhou borrowed the concept of extraterritorial rights, but Meng Wanzhou and HSBC are not American citizens and companies, and the actions between the two parties did not pose a threat to the United States. Therefore, the United States has no reason to use the concept of extraterritorial rights to extradite Meng Wanzhou.
According to the court’s schedule, the debate on the first branch of the "procedural abuse" complaint grounds will last for 5 days from March 1 to 5, and then continue the court debate on these four branches from March to May. .
There is no specific information about when the judgment will be made.
(Headquarters reporter Zhang Sen)