An australian citizen has been sentenced to death in China, after a court found him guilty of drug smuggling.
It appears from court documents from the court in Guangzhou, writes CNN.
according to The Guardian talk about the australian Cam Gillespie, who was arrested at an airport in Guangzhou in the north-west of Hong kong in december 2013.
In his checked luggage police found more than 7.5 kg. methamphetamine.
The australian department of foreign affairs confirms the case and expresses ‘deep sorrow’ over the verdict. The foreign ministry’s consular reports to provide consular assistance to the convicted person.
‘Australia is against the death penalty in all cases and against all the people. We support the abolition of the death penalty, and to proceed thereon’, informs the ministry of foreign affairs for CNN.
China has some of the world’s toughest penalties when it comes to possession of illegal substances, and both chinese and foreign nationals facing the death penalty by the possession of more than 50 grams, writes CNN.
Last year executed by China more people than all other countries did combined. It shows a statement from the human rights organisation Amnesty International.
Several foreign nationals have in recent years been sentenced to the death penalty in China.
In 2017 was the 36-year-old canadian national Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was sentenced to 15 years in prison for having helped to smuggle 222 kilos of methamphetamine from China into Australia. The verdict was later changed to the death penalty.
Also in april last year became a canadian citizen sentenced to death for having smuggled drugs.
