Justin Trudeau expressed ‘extreme concern’ as China sentenced Canadian man to death amidst Huawei controversy

A Canadian drug trafficking suspect has been sentenced to death by a Chinese court, having previously been assigned 15 years in prison. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the sentence “arbitrary.”

The Canadian Prime Minister on Monday expressed “extreme concern” after a Chinese court sentenced a Canadian man to death in a retrial ordered not long after the arrest in Vancouver of a Chinese technology executive.

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In his strongest-yet statement on the matter, Trudeau suggested he sees Schellenberg’s new sentence as a political move.

“It is of extreme concern to us as a government — as it should be to all our international friends and allies — that China has chosen to begin to arbitrarily apply a death penalty,” he told reporters in Ottawa.

via WSJ

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