{"id":35008,"date":"2021-08-10T12:45:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T03:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/10\/china-death-sentence-canadian-robert-schellenberg-michael-spavor"},"modified":"2021-08-10T12:45:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T03:45:46","slug":"china-court-upholds-death-sentence-against-canadian-robert-schellenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35008","title":{"rendered":"China court upholds death sentence against Canadian Robert Schellenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling comes as verdict expected in trial of fellow Canadian Michael Spavor<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese court has upheld a death sentence against Canadian citizen Robert Schellenberg.<\/p>\n<p>Schellenberg has been detained in China since 2014, when he was accused of attempting to smuggle 225kg of methamphetamine to Australia. He has maintained his innocence.<strong> <\/strong>In December 2018 he was sentenced to 15 years but after he appealed a retrial was ordered and the Dalian intermediate people\u2019s court instead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jan\/14\/china-sentences-canadian-man-death-drug-charges-robert-lloyd-schellenberg\">ordered his execution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/10\/china-death-sentence-canadian-robert-schellenberg-michael-spavor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling comes as verdict expected in trial of fellow Canadian Michael SpavorA Chinese court has upheld a death sentence against Canadian citizen Robert Schellenberg.Schellenberg has been detained in China since 2014, when he was accused of attempting to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,41,244,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35009,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35008\/revisions\/35009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}