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El caso eleva significativamente la hostilidad entre China y Canadá. Sus relaciones estaban ya dañadas tras el arresto de la directora financiera del gigante de las telecomunicaciones chino Huawei, que actualmente está en libertad bajo fianza.
Der Mann ist auch zwischen die Fronten eines Streits der beiden Nationen geraten. Das Strafmass ist eine Vergeltung für die Festnahme einer Huawei-Managerin.
Der Kanadier war im Jahr 2018 wegen Drogenhandels zu 15 Jahren Haft verurteilt worden. Als in Kanada kurz darauf eine chinesische Top-Managerin festgenommen wurde, ist sein Urteil in die Todesstrafe umgewandelt worden.
Robert Lloyd Schellenberg initially received 15 years in prison for methamphetamine trafficking. But he was handed a death sentence in a one-day retrial in 2019.
China has been branded the worldâs worst executioner as the state kills thousands of people every year using firing squads, lethal injections and mobile death vans. The true numbers of those killed by the Communist Party are thought to be staggeringly high â but the regime keeps them closely concealed as state secrets. Human rights experts said the vile system has come into spotlight again after the killing of Chinese tycoon Lai Xiaomin. He was executed last month on corruption charges â as in China even white collar crimes and drugs charges can land a person on death row. And ...