[130620.EN.BIZ] Huawei's Meng Wanzhou Extradition Hearings to Continue Into 2021

CANADIAN extradition hearings in Vancouver for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, wanted on fraud charges in the United States, are expected to continue until 2021, after Covid-19 threw scheduling off, reported Hong Kong's South China Morning Post.

At a hearing in the British Columbia Supreme Court, Meng's defence and the Canadian government lawyers representing US interests in the case jointly suggested that hearings be extended into early 2021.

Hearings in the case, which has drawn worldwide attention and worsened China's relations with the US and Canada, had previously been set to last until October or November. But the Covid-19 pandemic forced that schedule to be scrapped. British Columbia's Supreme Court halted uoperations in March as a pandemic precaution.

Source : HKSG / Photo : CP24.