A Chinese court on Tuesday upheld a death sentence against Canadian citizen Robert Schellenberg, who is convicted of drug charges in China. Schellenberg has been detained in China since 2014. He was originally sentenced to 15 years in prison in late 2018, but shortly after the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Canada in 2019, he was brought back to court and given a death sentence in a one-day retrial. The court’s decision to uphold Schellenberg’s death sentence came at a critical point in Meng’s case in Canada, as she battles an extradition request from the United States on fraud charges related to violating Iran sanctions. The high court in the northeast province of Liaoning heard Schellenberg’s appeal against the death sentence in May 2020 and the verdict was confirmed on Tuesday. Canada’s ambassador to China, Dominic Barton, condemned the decision in a phone call with reporters after attending …