She is the Chinese athlete (and winner of Roland Garros in 2014) who on November 2 claimed that three years ago, she had forced sexual intercourse with the former Deputy Prime Minister of China, Zhang Gaoli, at his home.
The president and CEO of the World Tennis Federation (WTA), Steve Simon, has already expressed “concern” for the safety of Swai Peng, stressing that he doubts the official information from China about the athlete, referring to the disputed mail.
“The statement released today (Wednesday, November 17) by the Chinese state media about Peng simply raises my concern about security and where it is located,” said Simon, adding: ” “I find it hard to believe that Peng actually wrote the email we received and that she could mean the words attributed to her.”
Email – ghost…
Until last night (17/11), Peng has not given signs of internet life, two weeks after her allegations that Gaoli had forced her to have sex with him, before making her his “mistress”.
And suddenly yesterday the Chinese state channel CGTN “revealed” on Twitter that Peng sent an email to the WTA administration in which he allegedly said the following:
“The information, especially about the category of sexual assault, is false. I am not missing or in danger. I was just resting at home, everything is fine. “Thanks again for the interest,” Peng reportedly wrote.
Why is the cursor visible in this screenshot? Who’s taken that screenshot and when? Who sent it? #China #PengShuai #ZhangGaoli https://t.co/pUQaO4VC2H
— Stephen McDonell (@StephenMcDonell) November 17, 2021
Or the cursor – mystery
The content of the email immediately sparked a storm of doubts about its authenticity: Twitter users noticed that a cursor was visible in her message.
As is well known, when an email is sent, or a Word document or other application is saved, it ceases to bear any marks it had while editing the text.
So, internet users reasonably concluded, the cursor that appeared in Peng’s e-mail and which was presented as authentic, probably betrays that some people displayed a screenshot as Peg’s email. The rest was taken over by the state television channel…
In the past, after all, the communist regime has been accused of broadcasting forced confessions of suspects to the public media. The same channel recently lost its license to broadcast in the United Kingdom because it broadcast a so-called “confession” of a British citizen, who had been arrested in China.
“The recent statements by Swai Peng, published by the public media, should not be taken into account,” said S. William, a member of the China Human Rights Defenders Association, noting: Arbitrary detention of people involved in controversial cases, preventing them from speaking freely and forcing them to make public statements. It is up to the Chinese government to prove that he is not in custody. “
I want to know why you forced me to have sex with you
In her controversial November 2 post, 35-year-old Peng said that although she could not provide evidence of her allegations, she wanted to know why Zang, now 75, had bothered her for more than 10 years.
“Why did you keep coming back, taking me home and forcing me to have sex with you?” she asked the former senior Chinese official.
“I can not describe how disgusted I was and how many times I wondered if I was still human. I felt like a walking corpse. “Every day I pretended, ‘Who was my real self?’ had written the Chinese tennis player before her post disappeared, as did she.
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