Bo Xilai Trial

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  China to Hold "Open Trial" for Expelled Communist Party Leader

  China will hold an "open trial" for fallen domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang, the head of China's top court said, state media reported today, in an attempt to show transparency though the super-sensitive trial will likely be far from open.

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  Bo Xilai, China's ousted top politician, sentenced to life in prison for corruption

  Fallen Chinese political star Bo Xilai was sentenced by a court to life in prison Sunday, following a sensational scandal that culminated in the country's highest-profile trial in decades.

• China politician Bo Xilai ready for jail: report

  Days before a Chinese court is to issue a verdict in the corruption trial of fallen Chinese politician Bo Xilai, a defiant letter attributed to him says he will wait quietly in jail to be vindicated, and that "everything will be clear one day."

• China leaders fear Bo Xilai comeback if sentence is not harsh- sources

  Senior figures in China's ruling Communist Party fear ousted politician Bo Xilai could stage a political comeback one day if he is not dealt a harsh sentence in his trial for corruption, embezzlement and abuse of power, according to sources.

• Bo Xilai trial reveals lifestyles of China's rich and infamous

  The family's safes held more cash than an average Chinese might see in a lifetime. Their French villa was held through shell companies designed to avoid taxes and publicity. The son gallivanted around the world at huge expense.

• As Bo Xilai trial ends in China, prosecutor demands severe punishment

  Chinese prosecutors demanded a heavy sentence for ousted top politician Bo Xilai as his divisive, dramatic trial ended on Monday, saying his "whimsical" challenge to charges of bribery, graft and abuse of power flew in the face of the evidence.

• Bo Xilai's trial shows greed, machinations of China's elite

  A former city official testified Saturday that he helped disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai embezzle 5 million yuan ($800,000) of government funds, the latest allegation in a politically charged trial that's laid bare tales of greed, machinations and betrayal in one of China's elite families.

• China's Bo Xilai calls his wife mad after she testifies against him

  Chinese politician Bo Xilai called his wife insane after she testified at his landmark trial today that he knew of money and a villa in the French Riviera that prosecutors say were given to the couple by a businessman friend.

• Wife of China's Bo Xilai talks of bribes at trial

  The trial of China's ousted political star Bo Xilai on Friday heard evidence from his wife, herself convicted of murder, who described telling her husband of a series of bribes in a video appearance.

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  In rare openness, China microblogs disgraced politician's trial

  Followers of the court's Weibo postings jumped from 70,000 to more than 300,000 during the day, and some posts were reposted tens of thousands of times.

• China's Bo Xilai mounts feisty defence, says was framed

  Fallen politician Bo Xilai put up a feisty defence on Thursday as he faced China's most political trial in decades, saying he was framed in one of the bribery charges against him and had admitted to it against his will during interrogation.

• Ousted politician Bo Xilai goes on trial in China

  Disgraced populist politician Bo Xilai went on trial on Thursday accused of abuse of power and netting more than $4 million in bribery and embezzlement, marking the ruling Communist Party's attempts to put to rest one of China's most lurid political scandals in decades.

• China politician Bo Xila's son breaks silence over trial

  The son of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai broke a months-long silence Tuesday, saying his father's imminent trial would carry no "moral weight" if it depended on deals struck with his parents to guarantee his well-being.

• China's Bo Xilai to stand trial on Thursday

  The trial of disgraced senior Chinese politician Bo Xilai will start on Thursday, Xinhua state news agency said, when he will face charges of bribery, corruption and abuse of power in an early test of new President Xi Jinping's campaign against graft.

• A pivotal moment for China's economic reforms: Bo Xilai's trial

  When a court in a coastal province renders its verdict against disgraced Chinese leader Bo Xilai in a trial that appears imminent, it could also decide the pace of economic reforms planned by the new government of President Xi Jinping.