Kris Wu Jail Time period China Court docket

Kris Wu, the Chinese language-Canadian music and appearing star, was sentenced to a 13-year jail time period by a Chinese language courtroom on Friday. He was discovered responsible of rape and group licentiousness. The courtroom stated that he can be deported after serving his sentence, in keeping with state-controlled media.

Wu (full title Wu Yifan) was arrested and formally charged in August final 12 months. His case was heard in June in a case with out media entry.

Allegations towards Wu had been made in July 2021 by Du Meizhu, 18, a magnificence business influencer. The girl used social media to accuse the musician and actor of date-raping her whereas she was 17 and at a time when she was drunk. Du later additionally accused him of doing the identical to different younger ladies, together with two minors. (China’s age of consent is 14.)

Wu denied the costs on the time and police initially appeared to facet with the star. However two weeks later the Chaoyang District Folks’s Procurator in Beijing issued an official assertion saying that it had authorized Wu’s arrest “after investigation in accordance with the regulation.”

A press release by the courtroom following sentencing stated that Wu pressured three ladies to have intercourse with him in 2020, whereas they had been inebriated. And in 2018, he had organized lewd actions at his dwelling with two ladies, once more with alcohol concerned. The identical assertion stated that officers from the Canadian embassy had been current for the sentencing.

In China, the crime of rape usually incurs a sentence of between three and ten years in jail, although in notably egregious circumstances the sentence can run to life imprisonment and even the dying penalty. Group licentiousness, outlined as intercourse involving three or extra members over the age of 16, carries a jail sentence of as much as 5 years.

Media studies on the time of the trial in June steered that Wu risked a jail time period of three to 10 years. The 13-year sentence is longer than that and will level to aggravating components or a choice by the courtroom to make an instance of a celeb.

The June listening to was held behind closed doorways, apparently to guard the sufferer’s id. It additionally served to maintain followers and press consideration at bay for the trial of one of many nation’s greatest celebrities.

Wu was born in China, however has Canadian nationality. He rose to fame as a part of the Chinese language-language offshoot of Korean boyband EXO, earlier than specializing in his profession in China. The rapper turned a TV fixture as a decide and mentor on exhibits together with “The Rap of China.” In 2018 he signed an unique distribution cope with Common Music.

Beforehand represented by UTA and CAA, Wu has appeared in Hollywood movies together with “XXX: Return of Xander Cage” and “Valerian and the Metropolis of a Thousand Planets,” in addition to Chinese language movies comparable to Guan Hu’s “Mr. Six” and 2016 fantasy “L.O.R.D. Legend of Ravaging Dynasties” and its 2020 sequel.