29 May 2013 :

a Hong Kong man, Robert Shan Shiao-may and a Taiwanese man, Lien Sung-ching, were executed for drug- trafficking. Shan, 54, was arrested in 2005 for allegedly sending 192kg of Ice from Zhuhai to the Philippines via Hong Kong. He received the death penalty in the Zhuhai Intermediate People's Court in 2009. Lien, 59, was sentenced to death at the same trial on charges of producing and trafficking drugs.
On 24 August 2011, the Supreme People's Court verified the death sentence. However, it wasn't made public until 30 March 2012, when Shan was executed, according to his lawyer Zhai Jian. He said Shan was only informed the previous day about the final verdict.
Shan's last 20 minutes were spent with his wife, children and a former classmate. His hands were cuffed behind his back and his feet were shackled. His loved ones were not allowed to be closer than five metres from him, although his guards granted him a final wish - to bid farewell to his daughter, 28, with a kiss. Liu Mingyun, Shan's 85-year-old mother who lives alone in Shanghai, fainted when she was presented with a ceramic urn containing her son's ashes on 31 March.
Hong Kong legal experts expressed their concern about the conduct of the trial. Hong Kong police found the drugs when they searched two Manila-bound containers at Kwai Chung terminal on 6 December 2005. Three days later, Shan was caught at his flat in Shenzhen with 58.9 grams of Ice, a gun and eight bullets, according to the verdict released by the Supreme Court. But in one of the most controversial parts of the case, a letter from Senior Inspector Ma Wing-keung at the narcotics bureau in Hong Kong said police had not found any drugs and the containers had been returned to the company that owned them. Police later said the letter had been a mistake and launched an internal investigation.