{"id":71033,"date":"2021-08-10T14:42:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=71033"},"modified":"2021-08-10T14:42:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:42:09","slug":"canadian-loses-appeal-against-china-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=71033","title":{"rendered":"Canadian loses appeal against China death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><img class=\"wp-image-71034 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Canadian-citizen-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"801\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Canadian-citizen-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Canadian-citizen-696x402.jpg 696w, https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Canadian-citizen.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/>News Desk:<\/strong> A Canadian citizen has lost his appeal against a death sentence in China for drug smuggling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The court said it upheld Robert Lloyd Schellenberg's sentence because evidence against him was &#8220;sufficient&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Schellenberg was initially sentenced to 15 years in jail, but in 2019 an appeal court said this was too lenient, leading to a retrial and a death sentence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The verdict comes as relations between Canada and China remain fraught, BBC reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Canadian ambassador to China, Dominic Barton, condemned the Chinese court's ruling, saying it was &#8220;no coincidence&#8221; that the verdict was released while an extradition battle involving senior Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was ongoing in Canada.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ms Meng, the daughter of the founder of the Chinese telecoms company, is currently detained in Canada on a US warrant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Schellenberg was detained in 2014 and charged with planning to smuggle almost 500lb (227kg) of methamphetamine from China to Australia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He denies the charges, and said he went to China as a tourist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Desk: A Canadian citizen has lost his appeal against a death sentence in China for drug smuggling. The court said it upheld Robert Lloyd Schellenberg&#8217;s sentence because evidence against him was &#8220;sufficient&#8221;. Schellenberg was initially sentenced to 15 years in jail, but in 2019 an appeal court said this was too lenient, leading to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":71034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=71033\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Canadian loses appeal against China death penalty - Bornomalanews.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"News Desk: A Canadian citizen has lost his appeal against a death sentence in China for drug smuggling. 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