Kathmandu. A Beijing court docket has sentenced Chinese-born Canadian pop star Chris Wu to 13 years in jail after discovering him responsible of rape and different crimes.
According to the investigation performed by Beijing’s Chaoyang District Court on Friday, the person often known as Wu Yifan raped three girls from November to December 2020.
The court docket’s official WeChat account additionally discovered him responsible in July 2018 of soliciting a crowd to interact in sexual exercise.
The court docket mentioned that every one the three victims within the rape case had consumed alcohol and couldn’t resist. Wu can be deported immediately after the 13-year sentence.
“The court docket made the above resolution based mostly on the information, the character of the crime, the circumstances and the dangerous penalties,” the assertion mentioned.
Wu was detained in Beijing on July 31 final yr after an 18-year-old Chinese pupil accused him of inciting her and different women beneath the age of 18 to have intercourse with him.
Rape convictions in China are punishable by three to 10 years in jail, although in distinctive instances the penalty will be as extreme as dying. The second cost Wu faces is punishable by as much as 5 years in jail.
Wu grew up in Guangzhou, China and Vancouver, British Columbia.