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The Huawei Technologies executive whose arrest touched off an international furor was ordered released on $10-million bail Tuesday in Vancouver.

On the third day of her bail hearing, B.C. Supreme Court Justice William Ehrcke said Meng Wanzhou, 46, had met the legal burden necessary for her to be released from prison pending her extradition hearing.

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There was loud clapping in the courtroom’s packed public gallery after the judge read out his decision.

The judge told Meng, the chief financial officer of the Chinese tech giant, that she must return to court on Feb. 6.

Meng, a mother of four, smiled and gave a thumbs up to supporters in the gallery. Her husband, Liu Xiaozong, who was seated behind her in the gallery, shook hands with several people.

Liu had been willing to act as a surety, backed by the couple’s two Vancouver homes valued at $14 million as well as a cash bail of $1 million.

But on Monday the judge questioned whether Liu, who is a Chinese citizen here in Canada on a six-month’s visitors visa, could be an appropriate surety.