{"id":30032,"date":"2021-03-22T10:32:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T01:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/22\/michael-kovrig-trial-china-canada"},"modified":"2021-03-22T21:40:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T12:40:22","slug":"canadian-michael-kovrig-goes-on-trial-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30032","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Michael Kovrig awaits verdict after trial in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Closed-door hearing takes place days after trial of another Canadian, with diplomats barred from attending <\/p>\n<p>The trial of a Canadian man detained for more than two years in China on espionage charges has taken place, with relations between Ottawa and Beijing in freefall.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing in the case of Michael Kovrig came days after the closed-door <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/19\/michael-spavor-canada-criticises-china-after-trial-held-in-secret\">trial of another Canadian man<\/a>, with both detained in apparent retaliation for Canada\u2019s arrest of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/13\/huawei-bullets-sent-to-meng-wanzhou-while-under-house-arrest-court-hears\">Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou<\/a> under a US extradition warrant.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/22\/michael-kovrig-trial-china-canada\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closed-door hearing takes place days after trial of another Canadian, with diplomats barred from attending The trial of a Canadian man detained for more than two years in China on espionage charges has taken place, with relations between Ottawa and Bei&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[246,41,244,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","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\/30032","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30050,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30032\/revisions\/30050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}