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It’s all the way with Huawei, as Sabrina Meng Wanzhou’s supporters converge on Canadian courtroom

  • Secret letters, fan fliers and laptop etiquette at the Supreme Court in Vancouver, as Huawei CFO’s bail hearings continue
  • Hundreds of members of the public turned up, some demanding loudly that Meng Wanzhou be freed

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Joe Luo holding fliers he was handing out to supporters of Huawei CFO Sabrina Meng Wanzhou outside the Supreme Court in Vancouver, Canada on December 10, 2018. Photo: Reuters
Ian Youngin Vancouver

“Free Meng Wanzhou! We love you!” shouted Joe Luo outside the British Columbia Supreme Court in downtown Vancouver.

The burly businessman was using his lunch break on Monday to protest against the detention of Huawei CFO Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, who was arrested in Vancouver on December 1 and faces possible extradition to the US to face fraud charges.

Luo was handing out posters that said “We Love You Huawei” to fellow supporters of Meng, at her bail hearing.

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There was no shortage of takers.

Supporters of Meng Wanzhou hold up a sign demanding her release outside her bail hearing fin Vancouver on Monday. Photo: AP
Supporters of Meng Wanzhou hold up a sign demanding her release outside her bail hearing fin Vancouver on Monday. Photo: AP
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A couple of hundred members of the public had converged on the courtroom for the 10am hearing. Some were rubber-neckers. Others were critics of China’s government – including Gao Bing Chen, a prominent anti-Communist-Party blogger, who was clad in a lavender corduroy Mao suit.

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