China court upholds death sentence against Canadian Robert Schellenberg
by Helen Davidson in Taipei from World news | The Guardian on (#5N4RS)
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A Chinese court has upheld a death sentence against Canadian citizen Robert Schellenberg.
Schellenberg has been detained in China since 2014, when he was accused of attempting to smuggle 225kg of methamphetamine to Australia. He has maintained his innocence. In December 2018 he was sentenced to 15 years but after he appealed a retrial was ordered and the Dalian intermediate people's court instead ordered his execution.
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