Canada officials misled Huawei executive, lawyers argue
by Leyland Cecco in Toronto from on (#4R3V7)
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Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou - the Huawei executive at the centre of an extradition battle that has poisoned relations between Canada and China - have argued that officials misled her when she was detained at Vancouver airport.
Before Meng was formally arrested on 1 December, she was questioned for nearly three hours by Canadian border agents. She was also asked to surrender her electronic devices, which border agents searched.
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