China welcomes Huawei top executive, Meng Wanzhou, back home, but silent on freed Canadians

Meng Wanzhou departed on a chartered Air China plane bound for Shenzhen. - AFP

SHANGHAI, Sept 25 (Reuters): Chinese state media welcomed telecoms giant Huawei's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, back to the "motherland" on Saturday, after more than 1,000 days under house arrest in Canada, on what they called unfounded charges of bank fraud.

But they have kept silent about Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, the two Canadians released from Chinese custody in an apparent act of reciprocation by Beijing.