- Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Jolie said China has implemented four Canadian citizens in recent months.
- Jolie said that she and former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have asked for the accusations of drug -related accusations, but the Beijing Embassy indicated that China does not recognize dual citizenship.
- Relations between China and Canada have been strained recently, as the two countries impose a tariff on each other's exports amid global trade tensions.
China has implemented four Canadians in recent months, The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada He said Wednesday. Such executions of Westerners are relatively rare.
Foreign Minister Missi Jolie said that she and former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have asked for the accusations related to drugs that include dual citizens.
The Beijing Embassy in Ottawa said the executions were due to drug crimes and indicated that China did not recognize dual citizenship.
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“We strongly condemn the executions,” Jolie told reporters in Ottawa. “I personally asked about leniency … they were all double citizens.”
Jolie said that Canada continuously demanded the compassion of Canadians who face the death penalty abroad. She said that the families asked the government to block the details of the identity of the four individuals.
Global Affairs spokeswoman Charlotte McCleid said that she continues to provide consular assistance to families and asked the media to respect their privacy. She said that Ottawa continues to defend the compassion of Robert Shelinberg, a Canadian who was sentenced to death for drug smuggling.
Canada Foreign Minister Milani Jolie said China has executed four Canadians in recent months. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
“China imposes severe penalties for drug -related crimes,” said a spokesman for the Chinese embassy. “The facts of the crimes committed by Canadian citizens participating in cases are clear, and the evidence is strong and sufficient.”
China is believed to implement more prisoners every year more than the rest of the world combined, although the total is the secret of the state. The executions are traditionally carried out by gunshots, although deadly injections have been entered in recent years.
The embassy spokesman said that Beijing “fully guaranteed the rights and interests of the Canadian citizens concerned,” and urged the Canada government to “stop irresponsible statements.”
The two countries have some tensions. China imposed revenge definitions on some Canadian farms and food imports earlier this month, after Canada imposed duties in October on Chinese electric cars, steel and aluminum products. The definitions increase to global trade tensions in the middle Tours of tariff ads From the United States, China, Canada and Mexico.
“China sends us a message that we must take steps if we want to see an improvement in the relationship,” said Jay -Saint -Jack, a former Canadian ambassador, said.
Ian Brody, former chief of staff of the former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, posted on social media that “the agricultural tariff was not the worst part of PRC's response to the EV tariff.”
“The implementation of a number of Canadians in a short time is unprecedented, and it is clear that it is a sign that Beijing has no intention to improve Relations with Canada“
China is the second largest commercial partner in Canada, but relations have been bad since the Canadian authorities arrested in 2018 a former Huawei executive official, who accused the United States of fraud.
China is imprisoned by two Canadians shortly after the arrest of Canada Meng and Anto, the daughter of the company's founder, at the request of the United States. They were returned to Canada in 2021, on the same day as Meng returned to China after she reached a deal with the American authorities in her case.
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Many countries have described China's work as a “hostage policy”, while China described the charges against Huawei and Meng as a political motivation attempt to retreat Economic and technological development in China.
Amnesty International condemned the executions and indicated that China carried out thousands of people in 2023.
“The shocking and illuminated executions of Canadian citizens by the Chinese authorities should be an invitation to wake up to Canada,” Kitty Navabandy, the head of the English -language group, said on Wednesday in a statement.
