As legal tensions between Canada and China escalate over the arrest of Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou, alarming stories of possible legal retaliation are surfacing, including a death sentence handed down to a Canadian accused of attempting to smuggle drugs out of China. At the same time, Huawei has distanced
A Canadian man sentenced to 15 years for drug smuggling in China has been quickly retried and given a death sentence in a move that may be a response to the ongoing legal tensions between China and Canada, following the Dec. 1 arrest of the chief financial officer of tech company Huawei.
Canadian Robert Schellenberg was arrested in 2014 and convicted and sentenced to 15 years in November 2018 for conspiring to smuggle 489 pounds of amphetamine out of China. He denied the allegations and appealed the sentence.
Then in December, he was given only four days notice that he would be retried.
