BEIJING — A Chinese court has sentenced a Canadian, accused of spying, to 11 years in prison, in a case linked to Beijing’s pressure campaign against the Canadian government over the arrest of an executive at tech giant Huawei.

Entrepreneur Michael Spavor was sentenced on Wednesday, and is one of a number of Canadians detained in China in what critics say is “hostage politics” after the Huawei executive’s arrest in 2018.…