Canadian sentenced to 15 years, retried and sentenced to death in China

In the wake of the Legal Issues that is currently brewing between China and Canada over the controversial arrest of Huawei’s CFO, Meng Wanzhou, a Canadian, Robert Schellenberg had been accused of smuggling drugs out of China about 2 months ago and recently sentenced to Death.

This is a revision from the initial sentence of 15 years in Prison that was earlier doled out to him. Reports say Robert had appealed the sentence. Was offered a 4-Day Notice Period to be re-tried and after a faster trial was held, the High Court of Liaoning Province concluded a heftier sanction should be meted out.

There is wide speculation “> the current tension between the two countries is the reason for the decision has some undertone from the Huawei CFO Scandal which is yet to be fully resolved.

13 Canadians have been arrested in China since Meng Wanzhou’s arrest in Vancouver, as at December 1.