Newspapers in mainland China downplay the verdict in the case of Wang Lijun, former police chief of Chongqing. Wang was sentenced to 15 years in jail for ''bending the law for selfish ends, defection, abuse of power and bribe-taking" by a court in Chengdu on Monday. Papers such as the Chongqing Economic Times and China Daily publish a report by the official Xinhua news agency in their inner pages, as they did for his trial and that of Gu Kailai. People's Daily publishes the Xinhua report at the bottom of page two in its domestic edition. The copy in the Overseas Edition...
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