Advertisement

Revealed: photos claim to show life inside China’s ‘luxury prison’ holding jailed wife of disgraced leader Bo Xilai

Images published on a social media account were allegedly taken inside Yancheng prison where Gu Kailai is serving a life sentence for murder

Reading Time:1 minute
Why you can trust SCMP
A picture showing a running race allegedly held at the jail. Photo: SCMP Pictures
Mandy Zuoin Shanghai

Photographs have been published on social media claiming to show life inside the jail where the wife of the disgraced top Chinese leader Bo Xilai is serving a life sentence for murder.

Advertisement

The pictures posted on WeChat are said to be of Yancheng prison in Hebei province where Bo’s wife Gu Kailai is incarcerated.

Yancheng is among jails in China dubbed by the media “luxury prisons” that often house officials jailed for corruption and other offences.

Advertisement

The pictures were published under the account name Sword of Changan Avenue, which often provides exclusive information about the work of the government’s Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission.

Advertisement