{"id":145828,"date":"2026-02-09T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145828"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:00:17","slug":"china-overturns-death-sentence-for-canadian-convicted-of-drug-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145828","title":{"rendered":"China overturns death sentence for Canadian convicted of drug smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn a sign of warming China-Canada ties, Beijing has reversed a Canadian citizen\u2019s death sentence and ordered a new trial, calling the judicial ruling \u201cindependent\u201d.<br \/>\nThe Supreme People\u2019s Court, China\u2019s highest judicial organ, on Friday overturned a death sentence against Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, who was detained in 2014 on suspicion of drug trafficking.<br \/>\nAddressing the ruling during a press conference on Monday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian stated that judicial authorities&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3342944\/china-overturns-death-sentence-canadian-convicted-drug-smuggling?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn a sign of warming China-Canada ties, Beijing has reversed a Canadian citizen\u2019s death sentence and ordered a new trial, calling the judicial ruling&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145828"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}