Ottawa settles with one of 'two Michaels' in China spy row

Ottawa (AFP) March 7, 2024

Ottawa on Wednesday reached a settlement with a Canadian who was jailed in China for nearly three years and claimed he had been unwittingly used for intelligence gathering. Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig were detained by Beijing in December 2018 in apparent retaliation for the arrest in Vancouver of a senior Huawei executive on a US warrant. After all three of them were free