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China’s top court overturned a death sentence imposed on a Canadian national convicted of drug trafficking, reversing a lower court’s decision in a case that had been a source of tension between the two countries, the New York Times reported.
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The death sentence against Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was struck down by China’s Supreme People’s Court on Friday, the newspaper cited one of his lawyers, Zhang Dongshuo, as saying.
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Schellenberg had initially been sentenced to 15 years in prison, but the penalty was increased in an earlier appeal that coincided with the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co., in Canada.
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Schellenberg now faces a retrial and is unlikely to again receive the death penalty, the New York Times cited Zhang as saying.
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The latest court ruling comes after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney visited China in January. The nations reached a wide-ranging agreement to lower trade barriers and rebuild ties, signalling a thaw in a relationship that had been frosty since Canadian authorities arrested Meng in late 2018.
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