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Did that person try to sell drugs in China? Pretty well known that's a death penalty.

• defrost 3y ago
  They tried to smuggle Chinese sourced drugs to Australia - but that's not the issue. They were charged, went to trial, sentenced to 15 years and appealed. When the appeal failed the original court upped the sentence to a death sentence. This appeared be a violation of a Chinese "no additional sentence for appeal" rule and a petty example of hostage diplomacy wrt the Canadian Government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schellenberg_smuggling_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schellenberg_smuggling_inciden...
  • winrid 3y ago
    He should have got the death penalty the first time around according to Chinese law. They were being nice, and the second time they said, fine :)
    • defrost 3y ago
      could have not "should have" - the law in question didn't stipulate either. However, he wasn't sentenced to death the first time. Do you have any comment on the apparent violation of the "no additional sentence for appeal" rule ?
      • winrid 3y ago
        Nope, I don't know anything about that. Was it the same judge? My understanding is that it's fairly common to get the death penalty for transporting or selling drugs in China. At least, that's what mainland chinese folks tell me.