Reuters’ Megha Rajagopalan and Ben Blanchard report that former security chief Zhou Yongkang will face open trial for corruption and other offenses at an undisclosed future date:

China will hold an “open trial” for fallen domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang, the head of China’s top court said, state media reported on Friday, in an attempt to show transparency though the super-sensitive trial will likely be far from open.

Asked whether the trial of Zhou Yongkang and other felled senior officials would be open, Zhou Qiang, president of China’s Supreme People’s Court, answered that it would be “open in accordance with the law”.

[…] Zhou Yongkang was one of the most powerful politicians of the last decade, and the party will not allow itself to be embarrassed by revelations he might make in court. The state secrets part will also certainly be heard behind closed doors. [Source]