Topic: Meng Wanzhou

Two Canadian citizens, a diplomat and an entrepreneur, have been set free to return home from China after two-and-a-half years in prison.

Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou on Friday agreed to a deal with U.S. prosecutors to defer fraud charges against her, allowing her to return to China nearly three years after Canadian authorities arrested her.

A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian businessman convicted of espionage to 11 years in prison on Wednesday, a ruling that will further fray relations between the two nations.

A Chinese court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence of a Canadian citizen convicted of drug trafficking amid a political row between the two countries.

A Chinese court said it tried behind closed doors one of two Canadian citizens facing espionage charges after being detained by the Asian nation in late 2018, stating the verdict will be announced at a later date.

Lawmakers in Canada voted to declare China's treatment of its Muslim minority Uighur population a genocide, a move that is expected to further fray relations between Ottawa and Beijing.

Canada, the United States and a coalition of 56 other nations and the European Union on Monday endorsed a declaration denouncing the practice of states arbitrarily detaining foreign nationals for political leverage.

Chinese and Canadian authorities are offering conflicting claims regarding the status of two Canadians who remain in Chinese detention.

China called for the release of Huawei's chief financial officer on the two-year anniversary of her arrest at Vancouver International Airport.

A Canadian citizen was sentenced to death for manufacturing and trafficking illegal drugs in China, a few days after another Chinese court ordered the death penalty for a Canadian national detained on similar charges.