Lawyers for Canada's attorney general flagged a conversation involving a key RCMP witness who is refusing to testify at Meng Wanzhou's extradition proceedings for concerns about "witness safety," according to documents filed in B.C. The document is a summary of an October 2019 phone call between Chang and Department of Justice lawyer Kerry Swift. Ben Chang was referenced in a spreadsheet that notes concerns about 'witness safety.'. On Wednesday, Chinese foreign minister Zhao Lijian was asked at his daily briefing about Chang's decision not to testify. He later went on to to accuse Canada of playing "dumb with constantly emerging questionable points in the Meng Wanzhou incident."

Source: CBC News November 19, 2020 02:37 UTC