On November 2, she accused the former Chinese Deputy Prime Minister of sexually assaulting her. Now, says Le Monde, Chinese tennis player Shuai Peng, 35, has been missing for a week.
The whole country is worried about her, also because she is a well-known name within the international sports scene. Former number 1 in doubles, she won with her Taiwan partner Hsieh Wimbledon in 2013 and Roland Garros in 2014, the year in which she also reached the semi-finals of the Us Open in singles. A tennis player of the highest level therefore.
On November 2, Peng opened on Weibo, the Chinese social network, talking about the sexual intercourse she was created by Zhang Gaoli, now 75, a former member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party's Politburo.
"I never consented, I cried all the time", read his post, which was visible for only 20 minutes before being removed by the authorities, who that day also deleted the word "tennis" from the social platform and made it impossible to search with the tennis player's name on the Internet.
A full-blown censorship. No one commented on the news nor the person concerned was able to provide further details or evidence. Because now Shuai Peng has disappeared, according to the most optimistic sources she has taken refuge in the United States.
(Unioneonline / L)
