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.

Surviving Bo Xilai's reign of red terror

22 Dec 2012

On a two-hour flight from Beijing to Chongqing early this month, Ren Jianyu spent most of the time with his face pressed against the window, watching the clouds streak past. At one point he...

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Inside Bo Xilai's dungeon: victims reveal ruthless torture

19 Dec 2012

In the first of a four-part series, Revisiting Chongqing, we look at one of the earliest and most high-profile victims of the disgraced party chief's crackdown on so-called gangsters.

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Bo Xilai has been on hunger strike in protest over arrest

22 Feb 2013

Almost a year after Bo's fall from grace under a cloud of lurid accusations about corruption, abuse of power and murder, the government has given no definitive time frame for when the former party...

Bo Xilai stages hunger strike, refuses to co-operate on probe

21 Feb 2013

Disgraced former senior Chinese leader Bo Xilai is refusing to co-operate with a government investigation into him and has staged hunger strikes in protest and at one point was treated in hospital...

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One year on, Bo Xilai scandal haunts Chongqing

6 Feb 2013

One year after Chongqing’s police chief set off China’s biggest scandal in decades, the megacity has seen revelations of torture and corruption but little action on alleged abuses during the reign...

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Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai will not stand trial until March, state media said on Monday, as journalists descended on a court rumoured to be hearing his case this week.

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Bo Xilai story reads like a violent mafia blood feud

Sex (probably), spies (possibly), fast cars (allegedly), power politics (undoubtedly) and a grisly murder (no question); the Bo Xilai case had it all.