Hungarian band wrote a song for their former member, Michael Kovrig, still jailed in China – VIDEO

Bankrupt, a Hungarian band, uploaded a new song on YouTube on Thursday written for their former member, Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat who was detained in December 2018 in China for espionage.

Mr Kovrig worked for the International Crisis Group, a transnational, pro-peace think tank. After being detained in December 2018, he was accused of espionage by the Chinese government in May 2019, and his arrest is thought by some press outlets to be

retaliation for the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on December 1, 2018.

Kovrig’s arrest has become a recent point of contention for Canada-China relations, Wikipedia says.

Interestingly, Mr Kovrig used to be the singer of the Hungarian band, Bankrupt, in the late 1990s.

The Canadian-Hungarian citizen lived in Budapest between 1996 and 1999.

The friendship between him and the members of the band lasted even after he left the country. He visited Hungary at least once a year and, in 2017, he even performed at one of their concerts to sing an old hit song, indirekt.hu reported.

After his detention in 2018, he was

accused of espionage,

while his first court hearing took place this March behind closed doors. According to the band, Michael is not guilty, and they hope he will be free soon.