They were executed earlier this year, she said. “There are four Canadians that have been executed and therefore we are strongly condemning what happened,” she said.

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Canada's Foreign Minister Melanie Joly told reporters in Ottawa on Wednesday that China had executed four Canadian citizens in recent weeks, defying pleas from Ottawa for leniency.

China has executed four Canadians in recent months, Canada’s foreign affairs minister has said. Melanie Joly said she and former prime minister Justin Trudeau had asked for clemency in the drug ...

China executed a Briton caught smuggling heroin in 2009, prompting a British outcry over what it said was the lack of any mental health assessment. Canada has pressed for the release of the two ...