OTTAWA, Ontario — A Canadian man detained by China for more than 1,000 days said he was put into solitary confinement for months and interrogated for up to nine hours every day, treatment he said amounted to psychological torture.
Kovrig and fellow Canadian Michael Spavor were taken into custody in December 2018 shortly after Canadian police detained Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, on a U.S. warrant.
Kovrig noted that U.N. guidelines say prisoners should not be put into solitary confinement for more than 15 days in a row.
Kovrig said there was no daylight in the solitary cell, where the fluorescent lights were kept on 24 hours a day.
“It’s a combination of solitary confinement, total isolation and relentless interrogation for six to nine hours every day,” he said.
Persons:
Michael Kovrig, Michael Spavor, Meng Wanzhou, “, ” Kovrig, Spavor, Kovrig, ”, Meng, “ I’ll, ’ ”
Organizations:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian, Huawei, U.S . Justice Department, Embassy, Ottawa
Locations:
OTTAWA, Ontario, China, Ottawa, rapeseed, Canada