a A Chinese court ruled on Friday Canadian Chinese Pop StarChris Wu to 13 years in prison The charges including rape.
Beijing Chaoyang District Court said Wu was given 11 years and 6 months for the 2020 rape case, and 1 year and 10 months for the “crime of assembling a mob to engage in unlawful sexual relations” In an incident in 2018 where he and others allegedly assaulted two women who were drunk.
said the court Three victims in the rape case He was also drunk and could not resist.
It added that a joint sentence of 13 years in prison had been agreed upon, and Wu would be deported immediately after serving his time.
“According to the facts… the nature, circumstances and harmful consequences of the crime, the court has rendered the above judgment,” the court said in an online statement.
She added that a Canadian diplomat is appearing before the court to hear the verdict.
The June trial of the 32-year-old former member of the South Korean group EXO has been closed to the public to protect the privacy of the alleged victims.
Wu has been in detention since August last year while the police are conducting an investigation in response to the online comments ‘Lurring young women over and over again’ to have sex, according to a police statement at the time.
That year, a teenager accused him of having drunken sex with her. Wu, known in Chinese as Wu Yifan, denied the accusation.
The teen then said that seven other women called her to tell them Wu lured them with promises of jobs and other opportunities. She said some of them were under the age of 18.
Rape is punishable by between 3 and 10 years in prison, although exceptional cases can result in heavier penalties, up to and including the death penalty. The second charge Wu faced carries a penalty of up to five years in prison.
Wu grew up in Guangzhou in China and in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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