https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/14/chinese-court-sentences-canadian-citizen-to-death-for-drug-charges.html

A Canadian man sentenced to 15 years for drug smuggling in China has been quickly retried and given a death sentence in a move that may be a response to the ongoing legal tensions between China and Canada, following the Dec. 1 arrest of the chief financial officer of tech company Huawei.

Canadian Robert Schellenberg was arrested in 2014 and convicted and sentenced to 15 years in November 2018 for conspiring to smuggle 489 pounds of amphetamine out of China. He denied the allegations and appealed the sentence.