JASON REDMOND via Getty Images Louis Huang of Vancouver Freedom and Democracy for China holds photos of Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig outside B.C. 6, 2019OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland told a senior Chinese Communist Party official that China should stop spreading “inaccurate” information about the Canadian justice system following the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, The Canadian Press has learned. Freeland delivered that message to State Councillor Yang Jiechi, the director of the party’s political bureau, during a Dec. 20 telephone call 10 days after Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were arrested on unspecified national-security charges. Freeland and her fellow cabinet ministers have steadfastly said Meng’s arrest is lawful and her rights are being protected. One week before the call, Lu Shaye, China’s ambassador to Canada, called Meng’s arrest a “miscarriage of justice” in an opinion column published by the Globe and Mail newspaper.

Source: Huffington Post May 28, 2019 19:25 UTC