Since the revelations of Peng Shuai against a former deputy prime minister, the subject was censored on the Chinese Web and the former tennis champion no longer gave new news.
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One week after the detailed revelations of the Tennis Peng Shuai, 35 years old, on his rape by the former Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Zhang Gaoli, 75, the young woman disappeared. The champion, who had won Roland-Garros in duplication in 2014, accused on November 2nd, the former leader of having forced him to sex three years ago.
If China has experienced several scandals as part of the #Metoo wave, in recent years, censorship and control of justice by the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) prevented the movement from growing. Such accusations of rape affect for the first time an officer whose rank is as high in the CCP. But the total silence of the young woman since the case was made public afraind the worst about it.
The long story of Peng Shuai remained about twenty minutes on Weibo (the Chinese equivalent of Twitter), enough so that thousands of users have time to make screenshots to share them. Since then, the account of the old professional player has not published anything again. The comments have been deactivated, and the subject is the subject of close censorship on all Chinese social networks. On the day of revelation, even the word “tennis” (Wangqiu) was banned by Weibo.
A delicate moment for power
Refined over the years, the tools of censorship are now capable of recognizing screenshots or images used to refer to a situation or a person. On the Douban Social Network, a leader of a women’s rights focus group asked members not to talk about the subject, to prevent the group from being closed.
At a daily press conference on November 3rd, the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs refused to evoke the subject: “I did not hear about it and it is not a question Diplomatic. “The case has fallen at a delicate moment for power, less than a week of the sixth plenum of the party, which brings together until Thursday, November 11 more than three hundred members of the Communist Party Central Committee. A year of the XX e congresses that must renew part of the direction of the device and, in all likelihood, confirm Xi Jinping at the head of the Party and the Country, the present plenum is of importance strategic.
In his narrative of more than 1,500 sinograms, Peng Shuai tells a troubled relationship that starts seven years ago, shortly before Zhang Gaoli’s accession to the post of Deputy Prime Minister and the Standing Committee of the Political Office of the Political Office CPC, Pinacle of power bringing together the seven highest leaders. After years of silence, Mr. Zhang, just retired, contact him again three years ago for a tennis game. In the afternoon, he invited him at home while his wife is at home, and the strength to have sex. “I was very scared. This afternoon, I first refused. I did not stop crying, she wrote. In the prey to fear and disorder (…), I gave in And we had sex. “Meanwhile, the leader’s wife” rides the guard outside “. A relationship takes again, but Peng Shuai describes it as an abusive, charged with lies and avoidance, up to a dispute the week before the revelations of the player.
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