The Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai denied having been sexually abused and assured that the way in which his publications on social networks were interpreted It was a “big misunderstanding”and that “never disappeared”.
Peng made the remarks in a interview with french sports newspaper L’Equipethe first granted to a Western media after revealing on Chinese social networks last November that he had an intermittent love affair with former Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, whom she accused of having sexually abused her on one occasion.
Any mention of Peng and Zhang’s relationship is completely censored in Chinaand doubts about whether or not to act under duress caused the WTA to decide in December to suspend the tournaments held in the Asian country.
“I never said I was sexually assaulted,” says Peng at the interview.
According to the tennis player, former number 1 in doubles, the text he published on the Weibo social network in November generated “a great misunderstanding” abroad, and now he hopes that the case “stops being misrepresented”.
“I hope this stops being hyped”says Peng.
The tennis player adds in the interview that he later deleted the post because he wanted to and that never disappeared.
“My private life, my feelings, should not be mixed with politics or sports”cries Peng, who also reveals that last Saturday he had dinner with the president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, a meeting during which they talked about the player’s “future plans”.
Peng granted the interview on the condition that it be done in Chinese. and that it be published on the Internet without the possibility of leaving comments, says the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post.
Until now, the WTA continues without trusting that the tennis player can express herself freely or that she is not being coerced.
Since the case broke out, the aforementioned organization has ensured that The videos in which she could be seen or her telematic conversations with Bach do not alleviate “concerns” for your well-being or your ability to communicate “without censorship and coercion”.
The missing tennis player: all about the case of Peng Shuai, who accused a renowned Chinese minister of sexual assault
Peng “disappeared” on December 2 after accusing former Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli of sexually abusing her three years ago.
until appeared at the end of November in a telematic call with Bach -in which she assured that she was well at her home in Beijing-, only media related to the Chinese Government had shown images of her on the social network Twitter, completely censored in the Asian country. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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