Canadian pop stars trial#

Due to privacy considerations, no further information can be provided.”ĬNN is seeking comment from Wu’s representatives. “Canadian officials monitor the cases of Canadian citizens detained abroad, and advocate for cases to be treated fairly and equally as per international and local laws. In an emailed reply to CNN on November 28, the Canadian embassy in China said that it was aware of the development in Wu’s case and that consular officials were providing assistance to Wu and his family. Officials from the Canadian embassy in China attended the sentencing, the court added in the post. Wu was formally arrested on suspicion of rape in August last year, after he was first detained by police in July 2021 in the Chinese capital, following an online outcry over sexual assault allegations against him in what has become the most high-profile #MeToo case in China.

Canadian pop stars trial#

Wu will be deported after he finishes his sentence, the court said. Canadian diplomats were denied access to the start of pop star Kris Wu's appeal trial in Beijing, Ottawa said, following his sentencing in 2022 to more than a decade in prison for crimes including. The court decided on a fixed-term sentence of 13 years, according to the Weibo post. The court convicted Wu on two charges – rape and assembling a crowd to engage in promiscuous activities – and sentenced him to 11.5 years and 22 months, respectively. The Chaoyang District People’s Court in Beijing stated that between November 2020 and December 2020, the singer raped three women at his residence while the women were unable, or did not know how, to resist due to alcohol intoxication and in July 2018, he along with others, organized two women to engage in “promiscuous activities” while intoxicated at his residence, the court stated. Others, though, are more subtle and surprising. Wu rose to fame as a member of popular Korean-Chinese pop group EXO, then as a solo act after he left the band in 2014. There are certain people you will never forget are Canadian, like Justin Bieber and Drake (the rapper literally wore a sweatshirt to broadcast it).

A Chinese court in Beijing sentenced Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu, also known as Wu Yifan, to 13 years in jail after finding him guilty of sexual offenses, including rape, the court said in a post on its official Weibo account.