Michael Kovrig: Two Years in Arbitrary Detention in China
Michael Kovrig: Two Years in Arbitrary Detention in China
Podcast / United States 1 minute

Michael Kovrig: Two Years in Arbitrary Detention in China

This week’s episode of Hold Your Fire! is dedicated to our colleague Michael Kovrig, who has been unjustly detained in China for two years. Rob Malley and guest host Brittany Brown talk with Michael’s wife, Vina Nadjibulla, about his life in prison, the toll his detention has taken on his family and her relentless advocacy to secure his release.

This week marks two years of detention in China for our colleague Michael Kovrig, for no reason other than being a Canadian in the wrong place at the wrong time. Rob Malley and guest host Brittany Brown dedicate this episode of Hold Your Fire! to Michael’s case and talk with his wife Vina Nadjibulla about Michael’s resilience in prison, the conditions there, the letters they have exchanged, the geopolitical intricacies of his case and her relentless fight at the highest levels of government to get him out and safely home.    

 

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