US Citizen In China prison to be executed after losing appeal

Shadeed Abdulmateen, an American citizen, faces execution in China after losing an appeal of a murder conviction. The defendant was accused of murdering his former girlfriend and the death sentence was announced in April.

Abdulmateen had taught English at Ningbo University of Technology, the South China Morning Post reported.

According to Reuters, after the trial by the High People's Court of Eastern China's Zhejiang Province Abdulmateen's appeal was rejected.

“The High People’s Court of Zhejiang Province … found that the facts found by the Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court were clear, the evidence was true and sufficient, the conviction was accurate, the sentence was appropriate and the trial procedure was lawful, so it made the above ruling,” CCTV reported.

Shadeed Abdul Mateen, an African-American who taught at Ningbo University of Technology in E.China’s Zhejiang, was sentenced to death for intentional homicide. He murdered a 21-year-old woman by cutting and stabbing her face and neck in 2021. https://t.co/XZA4BteLAe

— Global Times (@globaltimesnews)

The Supreme People’s Court will review the decision, which is largely a joke.

A U.S. Embassy spokesman said diplomats were “aware of a court decision related to a U.S. citizen.”

“We take seriously our responsibility to assist U.S. citizens abroad and are monitoring the situation,” the spokesman said. “Due to privacy considerations, we have no further comment.”

Abdulmateen had told the young woman, whose name was only given as Chen, [a very uncommon Chinese name] that he was divorced which was a lie.

The couple met in 2019 and soon became involved in a relationship. But China's Global Times explained that the situation between the two "spiraled out of control" after Chen wanted to end the affair.

“Starting in May 2021, Chen said several times that she wanted a break-up, but she was always refused and verbally threatened by the man,” the Global Times reported.

The court said that Abdulmateen met Chen at a bus stop in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province in June of last year. He then stabbed her in the face and neck with a "folding knife," the court ruled. He figured if he couldn't have her, no one else would.

Abdulmateen’s “premeditated revenge killing, stabbing and cutting Chen’s face and neck several times, resulting in Chen’s death, was motivated by vile motives, resolute intent and cruel means, and the circumstances of the crime were particularly bad and the consequences particularly serious, and should be punished according to law,” CCTV reported.

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This is a rare case, it appears, where China is doing the right and proper thing and the U.S. should allow justice to be meted out, in my opinion.

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