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Prisoner Swap Between Huawei CFO and Canada’s ‘Two Michaels’ Gives Hardliners in Beijing Ammunition

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Prisoner Swap Between Huawei CFO and Canada’s ‘Two Michaels’ Gives Hardliners in Beijing Ammunition
Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou (C) talks to media outside the B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver on Aug. 18, 2021. Don MacKinnon/AFP via Getty Images
Peter Dahlin
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Former diplomat Michael Kovrig and business consultant Michael Spavor are both home in Canada now. On Sept. 24, they were released by Beijing immediately after Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was released from Canadian custody, following U.S. prosecutors’ decision to end the extradition request for her and to put the prosecution on hold until December 2022.

Peter Dahlin
Peter Dahlin
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Peter Dahlin is the founder of the NGO Safeguard Defenders and the co-founder of the Beijing-based Chinese NGO China Action (2007–2016). He is the author of “Trial By Media,” and contributor to “The People’s Republic of the Disappeared.” He lived in Beijing from 2007, until detained and placed in a secret jail in 2016, subsequently deported and banned. Prior to living in China, he worked for the Swedish government with gender equality issues, and now lives in Madrid, Spain.
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