A top executive of China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd who is under arrest in Canada arrived in a Vancouver court for a bail hearing.
Meng arrived in a packed court on Friday as dozens of photographers and videographers jostled outside the building. She conferred with her two lawyers through a translator.
Canada’s Justice Department has declined to provide details of the case. A judge on Friday lifted a publication ban Meng had secured that curbed the media’s ability to report on the evidence or documents presented in court.
The news roiled global stock markets on fears the move could escalate a trade war between the United States and China after a truce was agreed on Saturday between President Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Argentina.
Trump did not know about the arrest in advance, two U. S. officials said on Thursday, in an apparent attempt to stop the incident from impeding talks to resolve the trade dispute.
Details of the case against Meng, to be heard in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, remain sparse.
Chinese Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said on Friday that neither Canada nor the United States had provided China any evidence that Meng had broken any law in those two countries, and reiterated Beijing’s demand that she be released.
The bail hearing could be just a preliminary session to set out a schedule, lawyers said.
The Crown counsel is expected to argue that Meng poses a flight risk and should be kept in a detention facility, legal experts said. The onus will be on Meng’s lawyer to provide evidence that she will not flee, they added.
