(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency)
Ottawa, Jan.16 (Petra)-- Canada has formally petitioned China not to follow through with the execution of Robert Schellenberg, a Canadian convicted of being an accessory to drug-smuggling.
In a press conference held late Tuesday, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said "We have already spoken with China's ambassador to Canada and requested clemency."
Freeland explained that discussions were ongoing regularly between officials "at a number of levels" in both countries.
Robert Schellenberg of Abbotsford, B.C., was sentenced to death Monday. He had previously been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the same offence, but a new trial was recently ordered.
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