Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg has been staring down drug-smuggling charges in China for “several years,” according to Global Affairs officials. But until this week, he did so in relative obscurity. Then government-linked Chinese media suddenly brought the case to light — and with it the spectre of a potential death sentence.
The eruption of publicity around Schellenberg’s appeal hearing this Saturday raises questions about whether he might now be a pawn in the much bigger legal battle over Canada’s arrest of a Huawei tech-company executive. If that’s the case, the Canadian’s life could hang in the balance.
The eruption of publicity around Schellenberg’s appeal hearing this Saturday raises questions about whether he might now be a pawn in the much bigger legal battle over Canada’s arrest of a Huawei tech-company executive. If that’s the case, the Canadian’s life could hang in the balance.
