The extradition case of Meng Wanzhou continued on March 17, local time, in the High Court of British Columbia, Canada in Vancouver.
The prosecution and defense began to debate whether there was procedural abuse during the detention of Meng Wanzhou.
Meng Wanzhou’s defense attorney argued to the court that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police used misleading statements or deliberately concealed materials to submit applications for a provisional arrest warrant to the judge before the arrest, which constituted an abuse of procedure.
The defense lawyer also believed in the court that, as a law enforcement agency, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Border Services Agency ignored the "immediate arrest" requirement of the provisional arrest warrant and delayed the arrest of Meng Wanzhou during a three-hour irregular "entry inspection". , Intended to help the FBI conduct secret investigations and obtain information.
In the process, law enforcement officers violated court orders and violated Meng’s constitutional rights, which constituted procedural abuse.
According to the defense line, Meng Fang’s lawyer believed that there was procedural abuse in this case, and the extradition procedure should be suspended.
The defense proposed four branches for this.
In the week beginning on March 1, the prosecution and the defense have debated in court on the first branch, the issue of political motivation.
The question of suspected illegal detention currently under discussion belongs to the second branch.
The court will later debate on the fourth branch, the suspected violation of customary international law.
From the last week of April to mid-May this year, 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.
After that, the trial judge will make a ruling on whether the case constitutes a procedural abuse and is sufficient to suspend the extradition procedure.
(Producing Zhou Jing)
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]