The court hearing for Canadian citizen Michael Spavor, detained by China since late 2018 on suspicion of espionage, ended on Friday after around two hours.
Canada said its consular officials were not given permission to attend the proceedings.
Chinese courts have a conviction rate of over 99 per cent.
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It gets better... by which I mean worse...
The father had insisted on referring to his daughter as his “daughter” and used the pronouns “she” and “her."