Ruling comes amid tensions over death sentence handed to another Canadian, and fate of arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Canada
A Canadian entrepreneur who was arrested in China on spying claims just days after the Canadian arrest of a Huawei executive, has been found guilty and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
The verdict in the case of Michael Spavor, which was delivered on Wednesday morning, comes as Beijing steps up pressure ahead of a Canadian court ruling on whether to hand over a Chinese executive to face US criminal charges.
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