Of the 798 U.S. handover requests received since 2008, Canada has only refused or discharged eight
“It’s going to be precedent-setting whichever way it goes,” says Gary Botting, a Canadian extradition lawyer who has worked on hundreds of cases but isn’t involved in this one. A win for Meng would be notable because discharges are so rare. A loss would validate a U.S. claim that it has the right to pursue a case in which the accused, the site of the alleged offense and the victim have no links to the U.S., he said.
Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou returns to court following a break in Vancouver, March 29, 2021.“This was a political prosecution all along — this case is about leverage, about trade, and about geopolitics, but what it’s not about is justice,” said Alykhan Velshi, Huawei’s vice president of corporate affairs, referring to arguments that the U.S. extradition request contained misstatements and omitted key evidence.
Meng also argues there was an abuse of process during her arrest at Vancouver airport, saying that Canadian border agents, police and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation unlawfully used the pretext of an immigration check to get her to disclose evidence to use in the criminal case against her.
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