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China puts Canadian Michael Spavor in jail for 11 years as Huawei row intensifies

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WEB DESK A Chinese court sentenced Canadian entrepreneur Michael Spavor to 11 years in prison Wednesday in a spying case that has been linked to Beijing’s pressure campaign against the Canadian government over the arrest of an executive at tech giant Huawei. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called it “absolutely unacceptable and unjust”. With relations between China and Canada already at the worst in decades over what some commentators have called tit-for-tat arrests of nationals and hostage diplomacy, the jailing of Spavor seems to sink the relationship to an even lower point. Spavor was found guilty of “spying and illegal…

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