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View Photo Gallery — Bo Xilai and China’s transition of power: The corruption scandal involving a regional boss has preoccupied China in the months before its once-in-a-decade transition of power.<\/div>
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By William Wan, Updated: Wednesday, October 24, 1:57 PM<\/div>
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BEIJING — As the deposed Communist Party leader Bo Xilai sits in prison awaiting criminal charges, friends say his family is struggling against Chinese government obstacles to help him prepare a legal defense.<\/div>
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Bo’s immediate family has been warned not to hire any lawyers, according to two people close to his wife’s family. And two lawyers his mother-in-law has retained on his behalf have been unable to visit the formerly powerful party chief, they said on condition of anonymity for fear of government reprisal.<\/div>
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The new details about Bo’s legal struggles came amid a four-day meeting of the National People’s Congress, which is expected to strip him of his legal immunity, paving the way for criminal charges.<\/div>
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Bo had been one of China’s most prominent politicians and a contender for a seat on the country’s ruling council until his wife and a top lieutenant were charged and convicted this year in the murder of a British businessman.<\/div>
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His spectacular downfall triggered the country’s biggest political scandal in two decades, and lingering questions about Bo’s fate have cast a pall over China’s once-a-decade leadership transition, scheduled for next month.<\/div>
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His whereabouts have been kept secret for months. But a friend of Bo’s wife, Gu Kailai, and a second person associated with her family said Bo is being held at Qincheng, a facility famous for its political prisoners.<\/div>
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The prison is an hour north of Beijing and has housed other purged leaders, as well as protesters from the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and, most famously, Mao Zedong’s widow.<\/div>
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