“There is no doubt that the two Canadian citizens have violated China’s laws and regulations,” Zhang Jun, head of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, said Thursday during a briefing in Beijing. Both men remain under investigation on the grounds of threatening national security. ( THE ASSOCIATED PRESS )China has said that Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor are being held on grounds of threatening national security. China’s foreign ministry said last month that Kovrig and Spavor were “suspected of engaging in activities endangering national security,” without elaborating. “It’s pretty clear that what he was doing was neither secretive, nor in anyway endangering Chinese national security,” Malley said.

Source: thestar January 03, 2019 14:26 UTC