{"id":29943,"date":"2021-03-20T04:53:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T19:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/19\/justin-trudeau-canada-china-trial-michael-spavor-espionage"},"modified":"2021-03-20T04:53:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T19:53:08","slug":"trudeau-condemns-closed-door-espionage-trial-of-canadian-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29943","title":{"rendered":"Trudeau condemns closed-door espionage trial of Canadian in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Spavor has been detained in China since 2018 in apparent retaliation for Canada\u2019s arrest of a Huawei executive <\/p>\n<p>Justin Trudeau has reacted angrily to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/19\/michael-spavor-canada-criticises-china-after-trial-held-in-secret\">closed-door trial of a Canadian man detained in China<\/a> for more than two years on espionage charges, dismissing it as \u201ccompletely unacceptable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Businessman Michael Spavor, whose hearing finished after less than three hours on Friday, is one of two Canadians detained, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/canada-michael-kovrig-michael-spavor-trial-china-us-huawei\">in apparent retaliation<\/a> for Canada\u2019s arrest on a US extradition warrant of the Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, and formally charged last June with spying.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/19\/justin-trudeau-canada-china-trial-michael-spavor-espionage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Spavor has been detained in China since 2018 in apparent retaliation for Canada\u2019s arrest of a Huawei executive Justin Trudeau has reacted angrily to the closed-door trial of a Canadian man detained in China for more than two years on espionage &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,244,50,712,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-china","category-justin-trudeau","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29944,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29943\/revisions\/29944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}