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China court rejects death sentence appeal for Canadian
Schellenberg was detained by Chinese authorities in December 2014, charged with drug smuggling in January 2015, and sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment in 2018.
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This handout photograph taken and released by the Intermediate Peoples' Court of Dalian on January 14, 2019 shows Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg (front left) during his retrial on drug trafficking charges in the court in Dalian in China's northeast Liaoning province. A Chinese court on August 10, 2021 upheld the death sentence passed on Canadian citizen Robert Lloyd Schellenberg for drug smuggling -– one of a number of ongoing cases that has triggered a severe downturn in relations between Ottawa and Beijing. (AFP/Handout)
A Chinese court on Tuesday rejected Canadian Robert Schellenberg's appeal against a death sentence for drug smuggling.
Schellenberg was detained by Chinese authorities in December 2014, charged with drug smuggling in January 2015, and sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment in 2018.
In 2019, the Dalian Intermediate People's Court in China's Liaoning province re-tried Schellenberg, who had appealed his original 15-year prison sentence, and decided on execution.
The Canadian ambassador to China on Tuesday condemned a Chinese court's ruling that upheld the death sentence verdict for a Canadian convicted of drug smuggling and called for clemency.
Ambassador Dominic Barton told reporters that Canada remains remain deeply concerned about China's arbitrary use of the death penalty.
Barton also said that it is "not a coincidence" that China announced the results of Schellenberg's appeal while the case involving Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou is ongoing in Canada.
