Kris Wu. Sino-Canadian singer and actor Kris Wu was sentenced to 13 years in prison, according to a judgment delivered Friday, November 25.
His case had brought out the beginning of the #metoo movement in China: Kris Wu, Sino-Canadian singer and actor, was sentenced to thirteen years in prison, in particular for rape, according to a judgment pronounced Friday, November 25, reports AFP. 32-year-old Kris Wu was sentenced to “eleven years and six months’ imprisonment for rape”, but is “also sentenced to imprisonment for one year and ten months for the crime of gathering people with a view to committing the crime”. ‘Adultery’, is it specified in the judgment issued by the Chaoyang District Court in Beijing. At the end of his sentence, the artist will, according to this same judgment, be expelled from China.
Wu Yifan, better known by his stage name Kris Wu, is a Canadian actor, rapper, singer and model, born November 6, 1990. Former member of the Chinese-South Korean K-Pop group EXO, which he joined in 2012, he embarked on a solo career in 2014, continuing to sing, but also trying his hand at acting and modeling. He starred in a dozen films and became an ambassador for brands like Louis Vuitton, Bulgari, L’Oréal and Porsche, before his career took a turn for the worse last year.
In 2021, a 19-year-old college student accuses Kris Wu of raping her on a date when she was 17. A testimony that had released the word of other alleged victims, who testified online to “predatory behavior” by the artist and his team during karaoke. These accusations sparked the start of the #metoo movement, which was quickly silenced by the censors controlling the Internet in China.