Posted on 03/20/2025 7:27:28 AM PDT by Angelino97
China has provoked international outrage after executing four Canadian nationals it accused of drug-related offences.
Canada's foreign affairs minister Melanie Joly said she and former prime minister Justin Trudeau had asked for clemency for the dual citizens after they were implicated in the alleged crimes.
But Beijing's embassy in Ottawa said the executions were due to drug crimes and noted that China does not recognise dual citizenship.
Amnesty International condemned the executions as inhumane and noted that China executed thousands of people in 2023, according to its most recent figures.
'These shocking and inhumane executions of Canadian citizens by Chinese authorities should be a wake-up call for Canada,' the group's head for English-speaking Canada, Ketty Nivyabandi, said in a statement.
China is believed to execute more prisoners each year than the rest of the world combined, with the total number a closely-guarded state secret.
Executions are traditionally carried out by gunshot, although lethal injections have been introduced in recent years.
Speaking to reporters in Ottawa, Ms Joly said the Canadian government 'strongly condemned' the latest killings.
'I asked personally for leniency... They were all dual citizens,' she said, adding that Canada consistently asks for clemency for its citizens facing the death penalty abroad.
She said the families had asked the government to withhold details of the identity of the four individuals.
Global Affairs spokeswoman Charlotte MacLeod said they continued to provide consular assistance to families and requested that the media respect their privacy.
She said Ottawa continued to advocate for clemency for Robert Schellenberg, a Canadian who was sentenced to death for drug smuggling.
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Sounds like these were Chinese drug smugglers, who also had Canadian citizenship.
People should see “Locked Up Abroad”
What did the Canadian government expect from China—compassion? Lenience? Really.
Sounds like FAFO in China 😳
They probably had their organs harvested too….
I fully support execution of drug smugglers and dealers.
Drug dealers around the world reading this news: “Note to self - DON’T deal drugs in China.”
But China ships U.S. Fentanyl.
And send their nationals to grow Marijuana.
Yet the Canuck gubermint is in bed with the ChiComs.
You never know. Sometimes a communist government will arrest an innocent person for political reasons.
But I have little sympathy for actual drug smugglers. They deal in poison. They deal in death.
And none of the bleeding heart liberals seem to care about a weak kid who died in a gutter from a drug overdose. His name is never mentioned.
With these executions, China performed a public service for Canada.
Otherwise, these "Canadian nationals" would have returned to Canada, and continued committing crimes in Canada (as they doubtless had been doing for some time).
All drug smugglers ought to get the death penalty
Midnight Express was enough for me!!
Yeah, these were Chinese nationals who acquired Canadian citizenship hope that would allow them to evade the law in China, or get off with more lenient punishment.
The never even fully renounce Chinese citizenship, so I don’t feel particularly sorry for them.
China remembers the Opium Wars while those is the West do not. This is more like revenge.
“ Executions are traditionally carried out by gunshot, although lethal injections have been introduced in recent years.”
And they charge the family for the cost of the bullet.
And America is soooo mean, right Canadians?
When I was young, an older and wiser friend said, "Always do drugs in your own country."
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