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Robert Schellenberg, a Canadian citizen who was accused of drug trafficking, was sentenced to death by a Chinese court, the latest in a line of legal cases that has strained relations between Beijing and Ottawa.
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
Este fallo se produce un día antes de que la Justicia china anuncie su veredicto sobre el también ciudadano canadiense Michael Spavor, acusado de espionaje.
En enero de 2019, la justicia china hizo pública la sentencia a pena de muerte para Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, condena que llegó después de la repetición del juicio, por considerarse poco severa la pena anteriormente impuesta a 15 años de cárcel.