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China grants Canadian officials consular access to Michael Kovrig, but not to Michael Spavor | CBC News

China grants Canadian officials consular access to Michael Kovrig, but not to Michael Spavor | CBC News

China grants Canadian officials consular access to Michael Kovrig, but not to Michael Spavor | CBC News
Jan 22, 2021 1 min, 17 secs

China has granted Canadian officials in Beijing on-site virtual consular access to detained Canadian Michael Kovrig but not to his fellow detainee Michael Spavor, Global Affairs Canada said today.

A statement from Global Affairs said it could not give out details of the meeting because of privacy concerns. .

Kovrig and Spavor were detained in December 2018 shortly after Huawei telecom executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested by Canadian officials while she was changing planes in Vancouver. .

"The Canadian government remains deeply concerned by the arbitrary detention by Chinese authorities of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor since December 2018 and continues to call for their immediate release," said a statement from Global Affairs Canada. .

Since their arrest, Canadian officials have had only sporadic consular access to the two men.

From January to October of last year, family and Canadian officials had no access to the detainees — something China attributed to efforts to control the spread of COVID-19.

Canadian officials were last granted consular access to Spavor on December 14, 2020.

Since their arrest more than two years ago, Canadian officials have been granted consular access to Kovrig on 20 occasions and met with Spavor a total of 19 times.

While Kovrig and Spavor remain behind bars, last week it emerged that Meng's husband, Liu Xiaozong, and her two children were granted permission to come to Canada by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada officials.

Global Affairs said that Meng's family members were granted permission to come here through a process that allows family members of foreign nationals to visit Canada temporarily.

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