China News Service, Toronto, March 16 (Reporter Yu Ruidong) After more than a week of adjournment, the extradition case of Meng Wanzhou continued on March 15th, local time, in the Canadian High Court of British Columbia in Vancouver.

　　Meng Wanzhou’s defense lawyer proposed in the court that he hoped that the court would accept the testimony of a Huawei employee as new evidence to refute the US allegations that Meng was involved in fraud and put HSBC at risk.

The defense believes that the U.S. case material misled the Canadian side.

Data map: Huawei Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou walked out of his residence in Vancouver, Canada.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Yu Ruidong

　　On the eve of the resumption of the hearing, the trial judge of the case made a ruling on March 12, rejecting the earlier application of the Mongolian side to accept the testimony of other Huawei employees as evidence in court. The main reason was that the relevant testimony was changed. It is suitable to be raised at the trial stage, not at the extradition hearing stage.

The judge also conditionally accepted the defense's application to include the contents of a U.S. expert report as evidence.

　　According to the schedule, from this week to April 1, the prosecution and the defense will focus on the second and fourth branches of the "procedural abuse" problem-that is, suspected of illegal detention and violation of customary international law-in courtroom confrontations.

　　Meng Fang’s lawyer believed that there was procedural abuse in this case, so the extradition procedure should be suspended.

Attorney Meng Fang proposed four branches for this.

In the week starting on March 1, the prosecution and the defense have debated in court on the first branch, the issue of political motives.

From the last week of April to mid-May, the court will focus on the third branch, that is, whether there are major omissions and misstatements in the case materials provided by the US to the Canadian side.

The judge will then make a ruling on whether the case constitutes a procedural abuse and is sufficient to suspend the extradition procedure.

　　The court will adjourn on March 16 and continue on the 17th.

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