For the past two months, people have gathered on a street in Vancouver’s pricey Dunbar neighbourhood, snapping photographs of a $4m mansion with its blinds drawn.
Onlookers are not interested in the exterior of the house — but they are concerned about the fate of its resident, Huawei’s finance chief Meng Wanzhou, who is currently under house arrest awaiting an extradition hearing on US fraud charges.
They cannot get too close to the property: several silver-haired security guards from Canada’s Lions Gate Security firm stand in front of the drive at all times, clutching walkie-talkies. Charged with ensuring she does not flee the country, some are also stationed nearby in parked SUVs with blacked-out windows.