Robert Schellenberg who was detained in China in a drug case in 2014.The Higher People’s Court of Liaoning Province rejected Schellenberg’s appeal and said in a statement Monday the sentence was appropriate and the lower court’s procedures legal.
It sent the case to the Chinese supreme court for review. China set to hand out verdicts for Canadians Michael Spavor, Robert Schellenberg Schellenberg was detained by Chinese authorities in December 2014, and was formally charged with drug smuggling in January 2015.
His initial 15-year verdict on drug smuggling charges was overturned and a death sentence was issued in January 2019 following a retrial.The next and final step in the Chinese legal process is a mandatory review by the Supreme.