This still image taken from China Central Television on Sept 18 shows former Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun on court during his trial in Chengdu, in Southwest China's Sichuan province, file photo. [Photo/english.cntv.cn
Wang, Chongqing's former vice-mayor and police chief, was charged with several crimes and received a combined punishment for all offences.
The verdict was announced by the Chengdu City Intermediate People's Court in Southwest China's Sichuan province.
Wang admits coverup, bribery, defection
Wang Lijun stood trial on Monday and Tuesday on charges of bending the law for selfish ends, defection, abuse of power and bribe-taking in Chengdu, in Southwest China's Sichuan province.
At the trials in the Chengdu Intermediate People's Court, prosecutors produced evidence while two lawyers retained by Wang defended him.
As we've been telling you this week, tens of thousands of villagers are protesting in Wukan, in Guangdong Province. Now the situation has become a standoff as villagers have kicked out both local officials and police. That came after the suspicious death of one villager in police custody. Here's the latest. The over twenty-thousand residents of the village of Wukan in south China's Guangdong Province have expelled all local Communist Party authorities, including police, and blocked road access to the village. The British newspaper The Telegraph was able to get a journalist on the ground in Wukan on Tuesday. Malcom Moore called the current incident the first time on record that the Party has "lost all control" in a situation of "open revolt." This marks the latest escalation in an ongoing confrontation between villagers and local Communist Party officials they've called corrupt and abusive. For three months, Wukan residents have been staging occasional large-scale protests against a longstanding series of abuses committed by local Party officials. The villagers' biggest grievance was corrupt officials profiting from illegally selling the villagers' land. The current intensified protest, including the expelling of all police and officials, came after the death in Party custody of Xue Jinbo. He was a Wukan resident who had served as a negotiator with authorities. Party officials claim Xue died of "cardiac failure." But Xue's family say there was evidence of torture on his ...Video Rating: 4 / 5
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