While Beijing stifles the #Metoo movement, mobilization in favor of the disappeared tennis player could be a turning point.
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“Zhoumo Yukuai!”: According to a CGTN journalist, the international version of Chinese state television CCTV, the ex-tennis champion Peng Shuai wanted a “good weekend” to his friends On WeChat, Friday, November 19th at night. She even accompanied her publication on the Chinese social network of several photos, playing with her cat, or holding a plush panda.
Peng Shuai’s Wechat Moments Just Posted Three Latest Photos and Said “Happy Weekend”.
Her Friend Shared The Three … https://t.co/8o1jclx63c
After an alleged email sent to the association of tennis players (WTA), who convinced no one, the Chinese propaganda insists, with these photos that evoke the evidence of life sent by hostage takers. Again, difficult to believe in the authenticity of this message, broadcast from the “Pengshuai2” account, and so-called shared by a friend of the player. Especially since neither these photos nor the email attributed to Peng Shuai two days earlier received any media coverage in China: on the other side of the big digital wall, any reference to the ex-champion was Carefully redacted from the web, since its publication on Weibo, local equivalent of Twitter, on November 2, in which she accused the former number Seven Chinese Zhang Gaoli for violating it.
Where is Peng Shuai? If we believe these photos, it could be at home, probably in supervised residence, and private communications with the outside. According to Steve Simon, the President of the WTA, his organization still failed to make direct contact with the player who won the double in Roland-Garros in 2014. Apart from CGTN’s publications, we are still without Peng Shuai news since November 2nd. Hence the campaign launched by athletes to ask for his news, with the word twisted #whereispengshuai. In recent days, Naomi Osaka, Serena Williams or Novak Djokovic have spoken about it.
From now on, the reactions go beyond the world of sport. Friday, November 19, the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights worried: “It would be important to have evidence on the place where it is, and whether it is well . And we urge an investigation to be transparently conducted on his allegations of sexual assault, “said the spokesman for the organization, Liz Throssel, Friday. A few hours later, the Quai d’Orsay said “preoccupied with the lack of information on Peng Shuai’s situation”, in a statement, while the White House shared its “deep worry”.
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