mo4ch:>Canadian sentenced to DEATH in China after being found guilty of drug smuggling | Mo4ch News
A Canadian man convicted of smuggling an “enormous amount of drugs” into China has been sentenced to death by a Chinese court in a case that will likely further strain relations between Ottawa and Beijing.A former oil worker, Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, was initially arrested back in 2015 on suspicion of smuggling more than 200 kilograms of methamphetamine into China. In November 2018, he was sentenced to 15 years in jail and a fine amounting to 150,000 yuan ($22,185).The Canadian, who claims to be innocent and accuses China of framing him, appealed his case – but his appeal apparently backfired as the Chinese prosecutors considered his sentence too lenient and demanded a harsher one.Also on rt.comCanadian who ‘smuggled enormous amount of drugs’ may face death penalty in ChinaEvidence obtained by the investigators “suggests Schellenberg was involved in organized international drug crime,” the prosecution argued.China’s strict drug laws apply a sentence of “15 years, life imprisonment o…