Will Bo Xilai's appeal against his recent criminal conviction and life sentence make another contribution to the legal education of the Chinese people?
- Thu
- Oct 3, 2013
- Updated: 12:50am
Bo Xilai
Chinese Communist "princeling" Bo Xilai, expected by many to take a key leadership position in the leadership transition of 2012, was expelled from the Communist Party in September after a career that saw him as Mayor of Dalian City, Minister of Commerce and Party Chief of the Chongqing municipality. His wife Gu Kailai received a suspended death sentence in August 2012 for murdering British business partner Neil Heywood.
29 Sep 2013
One cannot open a Chinese newspaper these days without seeing a story about corrupt officials being hauled up. Is it, then, the beginning of the cleansing process promised by President Xi Jinping...
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25 Sep 2013
The sentencing of Bo Xilai to life imprisonment should come as no surprise. It confirms the Communist Party under Xi Jinping remains a consultative Leninist system characterised by governance...
3:27AM
24 Sep 2013
Former Politburo member Bo Xilai will likely enjoy relatively luxurious treatment at a prison where many former political elites are serving time, but he might also run into the former aide who...
4:32AM
24 Sep 2013
Bo Xilai has been tried, found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. That, in the normal order of things, should be the end of the matter. Barring profound change in the political habits of the...
10:10AM
23 Sep 2013
Bo Xilai decided to appeal hours after a court sentenced him to life in jail for corruption, two separate sources with direct knowledge of the case said.
9:23AM
Bo Xilai erupted in anger as he was sentenced to life in prison for corruption. The Jinan Intermediate People's Court in Shandong found him guilty on all three counts of bribery, embezzlement and...
11:08AM
Though not televised, Bo's public trial was remarkably open, even if the authorities controlled coverage through a delayed internet feed. To help discredit a populist leader, these edited...
1:42PM
The life sentence for Bo Xilai marks the end of a compelling drama - but both his admirers and his critics felt the case failed to tell the whole story. Huang Chengcheng, a Chongqing native who...
2:22AM
The Jinan Intermediate People's Court accepted just two of the points former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai made in his defence as it jailed him for life. The court, in a transcript released on...
2:22AM
Fallen high-flyer Bo Xilai can expect hotel-style treatment at a jail for China’s political elite, where he will enjoy comfortable surroundings but be constantly monitored by government agents,...
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