A Chinese court on Tuesday rejected a Canadian drug convict s appeal of a death sentence in what appeared to be an effort to step up pressure on Canada to release a detained executive of tech giant Huawei. Robert Schellenberg was sentenced to prison in November 2018 after being convicted of drug smuggling.
The Higher People's Court of Justice of the northeast Chinese province of Liaoning on Tuesday rejected an appeal against Canadian citizen Robert Lloyd Schellenberg's death sentence for drug traffickin. China upholds Canadian's death sentence for drug trafficking | Main | English edition | Agencia EFE
BEIJING (AP) — A Canadian entrepreneur who was charged with spying after his government arrested an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei faces a possible verdict Wednesday as Beijing steps up . . .
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