China frees detained Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor
The men, who were detained by Beijing in 2018, were released hours after Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was freed in Canada
The more than 1,00-day ordeal of two Canadian citizens, detained by Beijing in what critics had labelled an act of “hostage diplomacy” over a Chinese executive arrested on US fraud charges, came to an end on Saturday, with all parties arriving back on their respective home soil.
The plane carrying Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor arrived in Calgary, a location which had not been publicly disclosed. The Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau embraced them on the tarmac. The plane had left Chinese airspace just hours after US authorities reached an agreement allowing Chinese Huawei executive, Meng Wanzhou, to return to China in exchange for admitting wrongdoing in a fraud case.
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