Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, now facing espionage charges, were detained after Canadian police picked up Huawei Technologies chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver last December on a U.S. arrest warrant.

“Canada has appropriately condemned the law but it seems hesitant to take any action for fear of what the CPC will do to Canadians [Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor] now held hostage,” he said.

Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor remain jailed in China, and earlier this month a fourth Canadian was given the death penalty on drug charges in that country since Canada detained Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in 2018—a move that infuriated

Ong said the fate of Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor who have been arrested in China in apparent retaliation of Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, as well as China’s handling of the virus outbreak and the pandemic, shows

-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was expected, the talks included the Chinese regime's imprisonment of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.

Notable examples include China’s detention of two Canadian citizens, Michael Kovrig and Micahel Spavor, just days after Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, an executive at Chinese tech giant Huawei, in 2018 on behalf of U.S. authorities.

The committee was formed on Dec. 10, 2019, exactly one year after China detained Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in early December 2018 at the behest of the United States

Diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor have been detained in China since December for allegedly endangering national security.

In retaliation, China promptly arrested two Canadians in China, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, and has held them ever since—which has become a major irritant between this nation and China.

OTTAWA—The federal government says Canadian Michael Kovrig has received his third meeting with consular officials since his December detention in China on charges of endangering Chinese national security.

Cong also claimed that Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who were captured in China in retaliation for Canada's arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, had “confessed to their crimes” before their release from prison in September.

Kovrig and Michael Spavor, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Uyghur genocide, and continued intellectual property theft from the United States valued as high as $600 billion annually.

“I wish these people would channel some of their energy towards our own government to end the genocide of the Chinese communist government, to see if we can do anything about the two Michaels [Kovrig and Spavor] that are imprisoned in China.”

Canadians Michael Spavor (L) and Michael Kovrig have been detained in China since shortly after Canada arrested Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver in December 2018.

O’Toole said Canada’s hesitation to hold the Beijing regime to account on several issues, not just its mishandling of the pandemic, has put the country at increasing risk—from China’s imprisonment of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, to retaliatory

Shortly afterward, Beijing detained two Canadian men—Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor—who were later charged for spying and are still being held.

Soon after Meng’s arrest, Beijing issued strongly worded warnings to Canada demanding her release, and arbitrarily arrested Canadian citizens Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig in China, later charging them with espionage.

The People's Procuratorate of Beijing Municipality filed a prosecution against former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig on Friday for "spying on state secrets and intelligence." 

David Mulroney, a former Canadian ambassador to China, told the committee that since Meng’s arrest, Canada has entered a “China crisis”—starting with Beijing’s detainment of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor over 600 days ago in apparent retaliation

Trudeau told reporters in Mali that Canada is impressing upon the Chinese how important it is to release detainees Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.

Meng’s arrest by the RCMP at the Vancouver airport in December 2018 placed Canada in the middle of rising tensions between the U.S. and China, and two Canadians, ex−diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor, were detained in China nine days

Canadians Michael Spavor (L) and Michael Kovrig have been detained in China since shortly after Canada arrested Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver in December 2018.

Just as Canada hopes its allies will keep pressing China to release detained Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, it is reasonable to expect Canada to take concrete action at this time to advocate for Taiwan's inclusion in WHA 2019.

China detained former diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor on Dec. 10 in an apparent attempt to pressure Canada to release a top Chinese tech chief executive who is facing fraud charges in the United States.

Trudeau said the government is working to obtain the release of businessman Michael Spavor and former diplomat Michael Kovrig, who were detained in China in December shortly after Meng was arrested at the Vancouver airport to face possible extradition

(The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes) Following Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in December 2018, China has arrested two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, sentenced two other Canadian citizens to death on drug smuggling charges

Two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, have been detained in China since December for allegedly endangering national security.

OTTAWA—In his darkest moments, Michael Kovrig draws strength from knowing that his fellow Canadians and people around the world are working to free him and Michael Spavor from their respective Chinese prison cells.

Days later, two Canadians—Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor—were detained in China in apparent retaliation.

Canada's embassy in Beijing has been notified that court hearings for Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig have been scheduled for March 19 and 22 respectively, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau said in a statement on March 17.