Beijing No. 3 Intermediate Folks’s Courtroom on Friday, upheld Chinese language-Canadian pop star Kris Wu’s 13-year jail sentence. Wu was convicted in November 2022 and sentenced to jail by the Beijing Chaoyang District Folks’s Courtroom for rape and assembling a crowd to interact in promiscuous actions.
He can be deported on the finish of his imprisonment. Wu had lodged an attraction with an intermediate courtroom. It was heard earlier this yr. The courtroom mentioned the proof introduced within the case was ample and the sentence was cheap.
Wu was detained in July 2021 after an 18-year-old Chinese language pupil publicly accused him of inducing her and different women, a few of them youthful than 18, to have intercourse with him.
The courtroom mentioned Wu gathered a crowd to interact in lewd actions and was the ringleader, subsequently his behaviour constituted the crime of group licentiousness, and it will preserve the unique ruling, Reuters reported. Wu was convicted of benefiting from the drunkenness of girls to have sexual relations with them.
Wu’s kin and some officers from the Canadian embassy attended Wu’s verdict announcement. A pop star, Wu made his Hollywood debut with the 2017 film XXX: Return of Xander Cage. He was an envoy for 15 luxurious manufacturers together with Bulgari, Lancome, Louis Vuitton and Porsche, all of which instantly severed ties with him after he was convicted.