“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.
There was no shortage of takers.
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.
But such folk were easily outnumbered by avid supporters of Meng and Huawei.
The crowd filled the 149-seat gallery and about 100 spilled outside in the waiting area, where at least five large televisions were set up to relay proceedings.
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