Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou seeks Canadian spy-service documents, claiming national security ‘cover-up’ about her arrest
- Canada’s intelligence service says the material could identify secret ‘human sources’ involved in the case
- Meng wants fuller access to the redacted documents about her arrest, as she seeks to have her extradition case thrown out as an abuse of process
In a federal court application being heard in Ottawa on Monday, Meng’s lawyers claimed that the documents have likely been the subject of “excessive redactions [and] overly broad claims of privilege”, and are likely relevant to Meng’s claims that she was the victim of an abuse of process in her arrest. They say her ongoing extradition hearing in the British Columbia Supreme Court should be thrown out because of this.
The lawyers want access to material provided on Meng’s case to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) by “human sources”, as well as the role of the CSIS officers in Meng’s December 1, 2018 arrest at Vancouver’s airport.
But CSIS says the material could identify its secret sources and cannot be revealed as a matter of national security.
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“What happened, who was involved, the communications between the parties … these are highly relevant facts,” to the abuse claims, Meng’s lawyer Scott Fenton told Justice Catherine Kane in the federal court.