The high court in China’s eastern province of Shandong said it would announce a decision on Friday at 10 a.m. on whether to accept an appeal by ousted former senior politician Bo Xilai, Reuters reported, citing a court statement. Bo appealed the court’s life sentence on convictions of bribery, corruption and abuse of power after the sentence was announced in September, with the court formally accepting the appeal in early October. Bo’s guilty verdict is unlikely to be overturned as the courts are controlled by the Communist Party, which long ago pronounced him guilty.
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