A Canadian sentenced to death in China has had his judgment overturned, coming amid a thaw in diplomatic relations between Ottawa and Beijing. British Columbia resident Robert Schellenberg, who faces drug smuggling charges, will now get a new trial. Detained since 2014, Schellenberg was first given a 15-year prison sentence for drug trafficking charges, before being retried in 2019 and handed a death sentence. Now, that judgment has been thrown out. China overturns death sentence for Canadian in drug case “I do not have visibility on the reasons that they undertake particular decisions,” said Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand…
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