Michael Kovrig and his girlfriend were walking home from dinner on Dec. 10, 2018.They lived in Beijing, where Kovrig, a former diplomat, worked at an independent global think tank.
As they took the final steps into their apartment, they were swarmed.“I was grabbed out of the blue by about a dozen men in black. They stuffed me into a car and took me to a secret black jail and then proceeded to interrogate me relentlessly and hold me in solitary confinement,” he told Global News, sharing his story of incarceration and the aftermath.The sit-down interview comes three years after he was released following 1,019 days in a Chinese detention cell.
Read more on globalnews.ca