Chou En-Lai31 October 1968
Presides over a trial which finds Shaoqi guilty & expels him from the Party
China · Government / Chinese Communist Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Presides over a trial which finds Shaoqi guilty & expels him from the Party
Found guilty at a trial conducted by the Plenium of the Eighth Party Congress
Month-long trial of the "Gang of Four" (Mao associates)
Sentenced to death, suspended for 2 yrs, "Gang of Four" members recieve long sentences
Maos widow is sentenced to death, suspended for 2 yrs
A Beijing court sentences Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng to 14 years in prison after a closed trial, he is charged with having conspired "to subvert the Government"
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