China sentences Canadian to death over drug charges
Posted Aug 6, 2020 2:17 am.
Last Updated Aug 6, 2020 6:09 am.
BEIJING – China has sentenced a Canadian to death on charges of making the drug ketamine amid heightened tensions between the two countries.
A court in Guangzhou announced Xu Weihong’s sentence on Thursday and said an accomplice was given a life sentence.
Death sentences are automatically referred to China’s highest court for review.
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The brief court statement gave no details but local media in the southern Chinese city say the two gathered ingredients and tools and began making ketmaine in 2016.
They say police later confiscated more than 120kg of the drug.
