Ottawa says that this year was executed by 4 Canadian China
The federal government says the execution of four Canadians “strongly condemn” Chinese At the beginning of this year, Beijing said they were “drug-related crimes.”
Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, after Canada, after Wednesday, he confirmed the number on the edge of a cabinet meeting in Ottawa, and Canada knows that many Canadians in China were killed in China.
“There are four executed Canadians,” he said. “We strongly condemn what happened and of course our hearts and minds are families.”
The minister said four of the four four was a dual Canadian-Chinese citizen, but the victims or their work would not provide more details to meet the confidentiality requirements.
Joly said that former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s personally appealed to the Chinese government to complain in the sentences of Canada. Last week, Canadian officials said he contacted Ottawa, who offered China and Ottawa families.
“We will continue to work with China because we continue to ask for the sensitivity of other Canadians, who only condemn and similar situation.”
Global Jobs refused to confirm how many Canadians were executed in China, when the previous year or executions took place.
“Canadian death penalty said in a statement that was sent by the death penalty, which is not inappropriate for the main human dignity and restrained.
The Chinese Embassy in Canada defended the use of the death penalty in a separate statement to the global news, he said the Chinese government fully guarantees the rights and interests of Canadian citizens. “
“China always applies severe punishments for drug-related crimes and maintains the problem of” zero tolerance “to the drug problem,” China said. “The facts of the crimes involved in the citizens of Canadian citizens are clear and the evidence is strong and sufficient.
“We call on the Canadian side of the law and ceasing to work in the same direction of the law and work in the same direction, and to preach the improvement and development of Chinese-Canada with specific actions.”
The embassy did not determine which crimes committed or informed of their identities. Joly said China has provided evidence to support the charges, but the Canadians have admitted that the Canadians are accused of “criminal deeds, drugs associated with drugs.”
First, the executions reported in advance in this week, the executions sent the world and post.
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Ottawa, Abbotsford’s Robert Schellenberg was sentenced to drug smuggling and execution in 2014 and confirmed that Canadians were not executed.
“Canadian Robert Schellenberg continues to preach for pardon and provides him the consulate of the family and his family facility,” he said.
Speaking in the background, Canada official said that Canada is currently aware of about 100 Canadian citizens detained by China.
China puts more prisoners from any other country in the world, causes China to execute than any other country in the world Amnesty International.
“The Chinese government must call these shock and inhuman executions for Canadian citizens in Canada,” the amnesty said the Amnesty International Canadian Secretary General Ketty Nivyabandi.
The exact number of executions in China is not known as a state secret, but more than 1,000 are believed to be taken in 2022 in 2022. In previous years, human rights groups and researchers were informed more than 2,000.
Cornell Center for Death Punishment in the World “Maybe thousands of people” are believed that people are in death in China, but several prisoners are executed in two months.
The organization added that death sentences and executions were reported in the media “in the media” in the media “seized or implemented by the organization.
China ‘not in the mood’ to concess or pardon
Guy Saint-Jak, who had previously served as the Canadian ambassador to China, said that the Canadian government could not execute China on charges of drug trafficking during two Canadians of China.
In 2015, former Prime Minister Stephen Harper and former Governor General-General David Johnston, including President Xi Jinping, said he would not give any results on the eve of the executives, including President Xi Jinping.
“Despite all these desires, the Chinese continued with execution.”
“I would say that our interventions have been in the best way to execute in a year.”
Were sentenced to at least four Canadian deaths Schellenberg, including Schellenberg, was arrested for drug smuggling, which was allegedly included in the drug smuggling, was arrested in prison in prison in prison in prison in 15 years.
At that time, the relationship between Ottawa and Beijing Huawei Cfo Meng Wanzhou and China’s next Holding Holding Michael Kovrig and Michael Favavor was at a low point.
The other three prisoners – Ye Jianhui, Xu Weihong and Fan Wei – China’s origin and their situation is unknown.
Despite its efforts to improve relations since 2021, Wanzhou and “two Michaels” were released, after Canada re-established tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and related components.
US President Donald Trump called on the efforts to take more action against China via Canadian Fentanyl and take more efforts to enter the North American auto.
Trump’s actions against China have led some analysts that want to stabilize relations with other trading partners such as the Canadian, including aggressive tariffs.
“It’s not something that China is not in the mood to make China any concessions, and maybe China is currently dealing with Canada,” he said.
“I do not see an important development, taking into account these signals from China.”
Last year end, Ottawa sanction eight Chinese officers This is accused of “severe human rights violations” against ULU, including Democracy and democracy, and expressed concern about democracy in Hong Kong.
Beijing rage and cited the historical treatment of local peoples, accused of hypocrisy.
“We are in a difficult time in relation,” he said.
According to him, Canada should partner with other industrial countries and continue to put pressure on China to prevent the death penalty, continuing to cancel the death penalty and cancel the death penalty.
“If you have a journey to China, if you travel to China, if you travel to China, and if you want to do drug trafficking, it means traveling with a Canadian passport,” he said.
Files from Global Marc-Andre Cossette
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