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Chinese court delays ruling on Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg’s death penalty appeal
- He was sentenced to death in January after a court ruled his 15-year prison sentence for drug smuggling was too lenient
- The resentencing – which Canada called arbitrary and inhumane – followed the arrest in Vancouver of Huawei executive Sabrina Meng Wanzhou
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A Chinese court adjourned a hearing of a Canadian man’s appeal against his death sentence for drug smuggling without a decision on Thursday in a case that has deepened a diplomatic spat between Beijing and Ottawa.
Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, 36, was sentenced to death in January after a court deemed his previous 15-year prison sentence too lenient.
His appeal hearing came a day after a top executive of Chinese telecom company Huawei, Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, appeared in court in Canada to fight a US extradition bid that triggered the diplomatic storm.
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The Liaoning High People’s Court in northeast China said in a statement that “all procedural rights of appellant Schellenberg were guaranteed in accordance with the law”.
The trial has adjourned and the court will “select a day or time to pronounce the sentence”, it said without specifying.
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