Chinese Twitter shuttered during murder trial One of China’s largest Twitter-like platforms, Sina Weibo, suffered widespread problems on Thursday afternoon leaving users unable to post or comment on the site just as the high profile murder trial of Gu Kailai, wife of ousted Politburo member Bo Xilai, kicked off. Users across the platform complained that they couldn’t post …
"Wife of party official plied Brit with booze, then poison, as revenge for deal gone wrong"
it seems rather...bold to print accusations of anything this serious and sensitive that happened in China as a fact, unless you have gold-plated video footage or something. A one-day trial seems hardly worth accepting as the kind of legal proof news organizations usually consider necessary before printing something like that as a definite statement, rather than an allegation or possibility...
I think that's a matter of translating from what we consider to be the Chinese justice system, to an English equivalent.
I also think that it is a rotten way to run a trial but she probably did do it, although she may not have very willingly "not contested" the charge. A British businessman fooling around with politically powerful people in China shoualdn't be surprised when he turns up dead in the middle of an apparent botched cover-up, so quite possibly it serves him right. I mean, look at Mark Thatcher.
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