BEIJING: A Chinese court held an appeal hearing for a Canadian who was sentenced to death for drug smuggling in a case that has deepened a diplomatic rift between the two countries.
The intermediate court in Liaoning province said Robert Schellenberg’s sentence would be announced at an unspecified date.
That came after Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Chinese telecom giant Huawei, on a US extradition warrant in December. Days later, two Canadians – Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor – were detained in China in apparent retaliation. Schellenberg, who was arrested in 2014, maintains his innocence.More than 200kg of methamphetamine were seized as part of Schellenberg’s case, the court said. It called the 36-year-old Canadian the “principal offender” and said the evidence presented was “true and sufficient”.
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