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| Chinese Court Says It Will Rule on Bo Xilai’s Appeal | Chinese Court Says It Will Rule on Bo Xilai’s Appeal |
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| HONG KONG — A provincial court in eastern China said Monday that it would deliver its decision on Friday on an appeal against the prison sentence for the former politician Bo Xilai. | HONG KONG — A provincial court in eastern China said Monday that it would deliver its decision on Friday on an appeal against the prison sentence for the former politician Bo Xilai. |
| China’s judiciary is controlled by the Communist Party, and there is little chance that the appellate court, the Shandong Province High People’s Court, will overturn or revise the guilty verdict and sentence of life in prison that a lower court reached a month ago. Mr. Bo was convicted of taking bribes, embezzling public money and abusing power in an attempt to silence murder allegations against his wife. | China’s judiciary is controlled by the Communist Party, and there is little chance that the appellate court, the Shandong Province High People’s Court, will overturn or revise the guilty verdict and sentence of life in prison that a lower court reached a month ago. Mr. Bo was convicted of taking bribes, embezzling public money and abusing power in an attempt to silence murder allegations against his wife. |
| Mr. Bo, a combative former member of the Politburo, an elite leadership council, had fought the charges and then lodged an appeal of the court decision. | Mr. Bo, a combative former member of the Politburo, an elite leadership council, had fought the charges and then lodged an appeal of the court decision. |
| His trial lasted five days and attracted intense attention in China, where many people followed a running account of the colorful proceedings that the court issued on Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblog service similar to Twitter. | |
| The Shandong court, which announced the appeal decision date on its Web site, will make its judgment without having held additional hearings. In China, courts often decide appeals based only on written submissions. | The Shandong court, which announced the appeal decision date on its Web site, will make its judgment without having held additional hearings. In China, courts often decide appeals based only on written submissions. |