Path to freedom narrows for detained Canadian duo caught in US-China feud

Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor stand trial on espionage charges widely seen as retaliation for Huawei executive's arrest

For more than 830 days, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor have been detained in Chinese jail cells, facing espionage charges that legal experts and diplomats have denounced as baseless.

But as the two men finally face trial, their supporters recognize that the two Canadians - caught in the centre of a diplomatic feud between the United States and China - face a narrowing path to freedom.