Canadian diplomats were joined in a Chinese courtroom Thursday by American, British, French and German colleagues to watch the appeal of a Canadian who has been sentenced to death for smuggling drugs.
The show of solidarity did not diminish Canadian worries over the fate of Robert Schellenberg of British Columbia.
Schellenberg's new sentence was meted out six weeks after the RCMP detained Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on a U.S. extradition warrant, plunging Sino-Canadian diplomatic relations to a new low. Nine days after Meng's arrest, two other Canadians -- ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor -- were detained in China on allegations they had violated China's national security.
A Chinese foreign-ministry spokesman called again for Canada on Thursday to immediately released Meng so that she can return to China "safe and sound." Meng appeared in a Vancouver court on Wednesday, where her lawyers said her defence would be based on the argument she shouldn't be extradited to the U.S. because she hasn't violated sanctions under Canadian laws and her arrest at Vancouver's airport was unlawful.
Freeland also said she remains relentless in pushing the government's attempts to build an international coalition of support to win the freedom of Kovrig and Spavor -- an effort that extended to Schellenberg's on Thursday with foreign diplomats attending his court appearance.
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