Fallen Chinese politician Bo Xilai first appeared in public in more than a year last Thursday, in eastern China, the country's most politically sensitive cases, in more than three decades of the last chapter of trial .
Bo, the 64-year-old former Chinese Communist Party chief in the southwest city of Chongqing, has been charged with bribery, corruption and abuse of power, and will almost certainly be found guilty.
His trial in Jinan City since 1976 in the "Cultural Revolution" ended, the fall of the Gang of Four, marking the climax of China's biggest political scandals. Maoist theme of his stint equality supporters of social welfare programs against capitalist tendencies on the road towards economic leadership in Beijing, the ruling Communist Party and the Chinese social differences within the exposure.
Xi Jinping, who is embarking on an ambitious plan to rebalance the world's second largest economy, will be keen to put behind him a trial with minimum of fuss, to ensure stability and party unity.
Bo Xilai, the trial will last two days, the verdict may be in the beginning of September, state television CCTV said.
Jinan Intermediate People's Court, the micro-Bo, Bo, and his five family members and 19 reporters attended the hearing. It did not elaborate, but CCTV said that more than 100 people took part in the trial, to fill the courtroom.
Bo's supporters protested a few court condemned what they say is politically motivated persecution, the second day of protests, prompting the police to stay away from the hustle and bustle outside.
A protester held a sign that read: "Chongqing experience is good for the country and the people, the common prosperity of what people want." Another lift Mao's photos.
Police blocked access to the courts and lined road that leads to the court, and to prevent its two doors. Dozens of reporters standing in the media across the street cordoned off in a box.
Bo be charged to receive about $ 1.8 million ($ 3.56 million) Xu, a plastic to own property entrepreneur who is a close friend and Hong Kong-based export company Dalian International Development Co., Ltd. General Manager Tang Xiaolin bribery , the court said.
He accepted bribes by Gu wipe leprosy, his wife, and his son Bo Guagua said, citing the indictment.
This is the first time that the case had been named for his father, the young Bo. Guagua is now in the United States, a law degree at Columbia University to prepare.
Bo official abuse of power involving murder involving Gu, the court said.
Bo is a fast rising star in China's leadership circle, his career was stopped short last year, a murder scandal involving alleged Gu, and later was convicted in November 2011 of the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood, a business partner and family friend.
Bo Wang Lijun, former police chief in Chongqing, has also been trying to cover up the case of jailed. Bo and Wang was furious when he was told that his wife was a murder suspect, and ransacked him to do so although there is no third party without the knowledge of authorities, sources said.
They said he did not report the matter to his boss, in Beijing, all of which contribute to abuse charge.
Bo begged charges how much attention.
Confession will almost certainly signal, he has worked for leniency deal, but he may plead guilty to abuse of power struggle clearly shows that the victim, his bid supply charge, according to the source relationship with the leadership.
However, he has been regarded as his supporters as a victim of a power struggle. Bo's downfall, his leftist followers, who is remembered Maoist revolutionary ideals, and reformers, who advocated faster between political and economic changes sparked an intense debate.
"I think this is the Chinese people are very clear so far, Bo Xilai is the power struggle loser, but at least he in Chongqing and Dalian people to do the right thing, so he still enjoys a very high reputation in some sectors The Chinese people, "Chinese politics professor at the National University of Singapore thin Chi Yue said.
"This makes the whole trial very, very difficult."
Illegal Trial
"When Comrade Bo Xilai was under house arrest, in violation of the party constitution, he was handed over to the judicial system, which is a violation of the Constitution," From last Wednesday, said a protester surnamed Li Chongqing.
"This trial is illegal and we do not believe that any of the test results."
Bo the charges against him could face the death sentence, but it is more likely to be able to give him a reprieve, which effectively means life in prison or 20 years.
The trial will be closely watching China's commitment to the rule of law as a test case, especially if Bo will get a chance to defend himself.
However, his guilt is almost a foregone conclusion, given China's prosecutors and courts are under the control of the Communist Party, the courts have 98% conviction rate.
Analysts say Bo's trial may have started only after he cooperated with the authorities, but how he will act in court will be a question mark.
"Bo Xilai may not be as cooperative as his wife, and the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC (Brookings Institution) senior researcher Li Cheng said," You can not have a completely secret trial. "I do not know how to deal with this dilemma will lead."
Xi Jinping, the official in charge of state power in March, the new government may trumpet Bo case, in its fight against corruption is entrenched success.
Xi Jinping vowed to fight "Tiger" and "flies" - in other words every one party who - because of his fight against graft so severe that he had warned that it threatens the survival of the Communist Party.
Bo has been unable to respond to the charges against him. In March 2012, during a press conference a few days before he was fired, Bo contempt by his wife's alleged misdeeds bullshit unknown man "filth pouring in my family."



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