Alibaba fires employee who accused her boss of rape

Also, the accused of violence and ten other people who leaked information about the incident lost their jobs.

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The Chinese merchant giant fired an employee named Zhou, who accused her boss and a company client of sexual assault in August. Criminal proceedings were instituted against the men, but in September it was closed for lack of corpus delicti. writes Bloomberg.

The crime, according to Zhou, happened during the working trip of colleagues. In the evening, she, a senior manager named Wang, and a client of the company drank alcohol, and after dinner they had a party. The result is a “drunken night” like togethert France 24, the men allegedly attacked and raped Zhou.

The woman reported this to her leadership after returning from a business trip, but they did not react in any way. Then the victim took matters into her own hands and unfurled a banner in the office cafeteria: “A company manager raped a subordinate, but no one cares!” Zhou then recorded a video and posted it on an internal corporate resource. She also described the situation on social media. Inside the company and on Chinese social media, outrage was brewing, and Alibaba’s management was forced to respond.

“Alibaba Group has a zero-tolerance policy for sexual violence and ensuring the safety of all of our employees is our priority,” the corporation said.

Management fired Wang and informed employees in a memo that it is implementing an anti-sexual harassment policy. To do this, they will create a special communication channel through which it will be possible to notify about such cases. Two senior managers have resigned for being inactive following Zhou’s statement.

However, in September, law enforcement officers came to the conclusion that there was no corpus delicti in his actions of men. According to their version, it is about “violent indecent behavior”. The maximum penalty for such a violation in China is 15 days of arrest. The police also denied some of Zhou’s claims. For example, her claim that she found an open packet of condoms under the bed in a hotel room.

Alibaba then fired Zhou, claiming her initial false accusation violated the company’s code of conduct. In a letter of resignation that Zhou received in November, the company accused the employee of perjury, resulting in negative legal consequences for the corporation. Another 10 employees were fired for leaking information about the incident.

The Zhou case is not the first sex scandal involving Chinese influencers.

The latest high-profile case involves tennis star Peng Shuai, who accused former Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault in November.

Peng’s accusations, published on the Chinese microblogging platform Weibo, were censored in minutes. Since then, the three-time Olympic champion has disappeared from the public eye, causing worldwide concern and appeals the administration of US President Joe Biden and the UN Human Rights Office “to provide independent and verifiable evidence of her whereabouts.”

Previously Focus reported on the Belarusian TV presenter, who wished the president European Commission to be raped

Also Focus reported an Indian homeless person, reporting that she was raped 400 people.

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