China overturns death sentence for Canadian convicted of drug smuggling

2026-02-09 - 11:07

In a sign of warming China-Canada ties, Beijing has reversed a Canadian citizen’s death sentence and ordered a new trial, calling the judicial ruling “independent”. The Supreme People’s Court, China’s highest judicial organ, on Friday overturned a death sentence against Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, who was detained in 2014 on suspicion of drug trafficking. Addressing the ruling during a press conference on Monday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian stated that judicial authorities...