BREAKING: China sentences 6 foreigners for drugs; Canadian gets death
The Jiangmen Intermediate People's Court on Tuesday sentenced 11 people who produced more than 63 kilograms of the illegal drug. Among them were one American and four Mexicans.
All were given life or suspended death sentences. The court statement did not make clear which individual received what sentence.Another person, identified as Wu Ziping, was also sentenced to death. The court did not give Wu's nationality. China sentenced Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg to death in January in a separate drug smuggling case that strained relations.
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