A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a Canadian man to death
for drug smuggling after prosecutors said an original 15-year sentence announced
in November was too lenient.
“Dalian Intermediate People’s Court in the northeast
province of Liaoning retried Robert Lloyd Schellenberg and handed down the death penalty,’’ the court said in a brief
statement on its website.
The case is likely again to test relations between Beijing
and Ottawa, which has been tensed since Canada’s arrest of a Chinese executive
at the request of the U.S. in December.
The arrest was followed by China’s detention of two Canadian
citizens on suspicion of endangering state security.
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