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Canada’s Foreign Minister Marc Garneau condemned China's sentencing of Canadian citizen Michael Spavor for 11 years in prison for espionage on Wednesday.

“This decision was made after a process that lacked both fairness and transparency, including a trial that did not satisfy the minimum standards required by international law,” Garneau said during the news conference.

He also said that Canada has notified nations who endorsed the declaration against arbitrary detention of this development, and that securing the release of both Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig remains the country’s top priority.

Spavor and Kovrig were both detained by Chinese authorities in 2018 in an apparent retaliation of the RCMP’s arrest of Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver at the behest of American authorities.

The Chinese court decision comes a day after the death sentence verdict against another Canadian citizen, Robert Schellenberg, in drug smuggling case.

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