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Chinese Tennis Star Peng Shuai Could Face Torture in Secret Jail

Commentary Peng Shuai’s staged public appearances are a new version of Beijing’s forced televised confessions. Peng has almost certainly been either placed under house arrest, or taken into China’s RSDL (residential surveillance at a designated location) system for disappearances at a secret jail. And Chinese state-run media’s release of a purported letter from her, followed…


Beijing Scrubs Account of Tennis Star’s Affair With Former Vice Premier

China’s social media platforms have scrubbed any references relating to a prominent Chinese tennis player and a former top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official, after a post describing their decade-long relationship went viral on Nov. 2. Peng Shuai, a former number one ranked tennis doubles player, accused China’s former vice premier, Zhang Gaoli, of sexual coercion, before becoming his…