Canada – Western Standard, March 19, 2025
Global Affairs Canada indicated Robert Schellenberg, a BC man who was sentenced to the death penalty in January 2019, is still alive.
Global Affairs Canada (GAC) has confirmed an unspecified number of Canadians have been executed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) so far in 2025.
The federal agency indicated Robert Schellenberg, a man from British Columbia who was sentenced to the death penalty in January 2019, and lost an appeal in 2021, is still alive.
There are currently roughly 100 to 115 Canadian citizens detained in Chinese prisons, some of them not heard from for years, and about five sentenced to death.
Alleged crimes are often related to drugs, and sometimes on religious or political grounds, such as the case of Huseyin Celil, a Uyghur imam from Xinjiang, a muslim minority region in Western China. Celil has been cut-off from consulate services and his family has not had any contact from him in more than a decade.
