Chinese court sentences Canadian citizen to death for drug charges, as legal tensions escalate over

[HumblePi]

On 1 December 2018, Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada at the request of the United States for allegedly defrauding multiple financial institutions in breach of US-imposed bans on dealing with Iran. Meng is CFO of the telecom giant Huawei founded by her father Ren Zhengfei. Canadian Robert Schellenberg was arrested in 2014 and convicted and sentenced to 15 years two months ago for conspiring to smuggle 489 pounds of amphetamine out of China. He denied the allegations and appealed the sentence.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/14/chinese-court-sentences-canadian-citizen-to-death-for-drug-charges.html
Chinese court sentences Canadian citizen to death for drug charges, as legal tensions escalate over the arrest of Huawei's CFO

A Canadian man sentenced to 15 years for drug smuggling in China has been quickly retried and given a death sentence in a move that may be a response to the legal tensions between China and Canada following the Dec. 1 arrest of the chief financial officer of tech company Huawei.

Canadian Robert Schellenberg was arrested in 2014 and convicted and sentenced to 15 years two months ago for conspiring to smuggle 489 pounds of amphetamine out of China. He denied the allegations and appealed the sentence. Then in December, he was given only four days notice that he would be retried. The High Court of Liaoning Province, saying his initial sentence was not tough enough, then held another, much faster retrial and sentenced him to death.

 

[Rogue Valley]

It's hard for me to dredge up sympathy for Americans who get their asses in a sling in the pariah nations ..... Russia, North Korea, Iran, Syria, China, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Venezuela, etc.