Trial of disgraced Chinese ‘princeling’ Bo Xilai to start Thursday
Bo Xilai, the disgraced Chinese Communist Party boss in the city of Chongqing, is set to go on trial Thursday on charges of bribery, corruption and abuse of power. The long-anticipated trial of Bo, the so-called “princeling” son of a former vice premier, will be the country’s highest-profile prosecution since 1976, when Mao Zedong's widow Jiang Qing and her Gang of Four were expelled from power at the end of the Cultural Revolution. Bo's jailed wife, Gu Kailai, who was found guilty in 2011 of murder of British businessman Neil Heywood in Chongqing, is likely to be the key witness for the prosecution.
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