Tennis player accuses Chinese Communist Party authority of sexual assault and is censured


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Bi-champion of Grand Slams in women’s doubles tournaments (at Wimbledon-2013 and Roland Garros-2014, both alongside Taiwanese Hsieh Su-wei), Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, 35, published this week a text in which she accused Zhang Gaoli, former deputy prime minister of the country and former top member of the Communist Party of China, of sexual assault. The report, posted on Chinese social network Weibo, was quickly taken down, and comments on the matter are being censored on Chinese websites. Peng claimed that he first had sex with Zhang (75, deputy prime minister of dictator Xi Jinping between 2013 and 2018) more...