BEIJING — An ex-lawyer who said he was wrongfully persecuted as part of a crime crackdown by China’s purged politician Bo Xilai this week filed a complaint with China’s highest prosecuting office.
The former defense lawyer, Li Zhuang, is demanding an investigation.
China’s top government prosecuting office said on its website Saturday that it would handle his complaint according to procedure.
Li was detained in 2009 after his client Gong Gangmo, a Chongqing businessman swept into Bo’s anti-mafia campaign because he was suspected of gang crimes, purported that the defense lawyer had instigated him to lie about being tortured for confession.
Li, who spent 18 months in jail, has said Gong framed him under duress of Chongqing police.
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