Robert Schellenberg was sentenced to death by a Chinese court over drug charges as they viewed his fifteen year sentence too lenient. Robert was originally convicted all the way back in November. Schellenberg has been detained since 2014 in a case that gained a little audience. Robert was in a failed attempt to smuggle 225kg of methamphetamine to Australia. This sentence is expected to rise tension between China and Canada. According to Donald Clarke "The case appears to reinforce the message, previously suggested by the detentions of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, that China views the holding of human hostages as an acceptable way to conduct diplomacy."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/14/china-sentences-canadian-man-death-drug-charges-robert-lloyd-schellenberg
Cole Griffin
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