Is the extradition procedure in Meng Wanzhou legal?

Meng Wanzhou's case has made great progress recently! After the federal police admitted that the affidavit for the arrest warrant was "wrong" and the staff of the Canada Border Services Agency admitted that it was illegal to transmit the mobile phone password, a Canadian judge ruled on the 29th local time that Meng Wanzhou's lawyer could apply to terminate the extradition procedure because of "material evidence omission".

A Canadian judge ruled that Meng Wanzhou lawyers could apply for termination of extradition proceedings on the grounds of "material evidence omission".

According to CCTV news reports, on the evening of 29th local time in Vancouver, Judge Heather Holmes of British Columbia High Court ruled that Meng Wanzhou's application for extradition was rejected. This ruling means that the judge thinks that there may be "intentional omission of evidence" or "significant omission of evidence" in the "case record" provided by the United States, so it can be listed as one of the reasons for applying for termination of extradition to Meng Wanzhou.

According to the ruling, Ms. Meng's application, whether it is to stop the lawsuit or to identify the evidence deleted from the "case record", is based on the consideration of each branch separately and comprehensively. So there is a possibility that the third branch can not be established alone, but it can be established together with the first branch and the second branch. Therefore, the judge decided to reject the request of the prosecution lawyer.

The staff of the Canadian Border Services Agency admitted that it is illegal to pass the mobile phone password.

As previously reported by Zhongxin. com. Com, local time1October 26th 10, Meng Wanzhou once again appeared in the Vancouver High Court of British Columbia to attend the hearing of his extradition case. In this round of hearing, the prosecution and the defense will cross-examine the witnesses around whether there is abuse of procedure in the process of detaining Meng Wanzhou by Canadian law enforcement agencies.

The defense believes that two hours before flying to Vancouver on February, 2065438 18+ 1, the Royal Mounted Police and Border Service changed the original plan of "immediate arrest", but used special immigration inspection power to detain Meng's electronic equipment and illegally "interrogate" Meng without informing him of his constitutional rights and the absence of his lawyer. The defense believes that law enforcement officers disguised an illegal criminal investigation as a routine customs inspection in order to help the United States illegally collect evidence against Huawei without a lawyer present.

According to CCTV news reports, on 27th local time, Meng Wanzhou's lawyer asked Winston Yep, an official of Canadian Federal Police (RCMP), again. Compared with the 26th, the police officer's reply to the defense lawyer on that day was obviously longer, and he seemed to "think twice before answering" every question, and his tone was lower than that of the previous day. Although he chose the answer so carefully, he was forced to admit directly during the inquiry that he obtained the judge's provisional arrest warrant with the wrong affidavit.

In addition, Scott Kirkland, an employee of the Canadian Border Services Agency, was questioned by the prosecution lawyer ten minutes before the end of the trial that afternoon.

Notably, Scott asked Meng Wanzhou to hand over her mobile phone password, which was not only written in his notebook, but also written on a piece of paper. His explanation is that this is his work habit, and he usually does it to remind the holder to change his password when returning his passport. However, this note with a password was later sent to the hands of the federal police. According to relevant laws and regulations, the Border Service can't give the information they get from immigrants to the police.

Scott admitted that this was a mistake and violated the privacy protection law. But he denied that it was given to the police on purpose.

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