{"id":36562,"date":"2021-09-07T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/07\/alibaba-sexual-assault-case-dropped-as-china-police-say-forcible-indecency-not-a"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T06:00:03","slug":"alibaba-sexual-assault-case-dropped-as-china-police-say-forcible-indecency-not-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36562","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba sexual assault case dropped as China police say \u2018forcible indecency\u2019 not a crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manager accused of rape released after 15 days, the maximum punishment for someone who molests another<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors in China have dropped a case against an Alibaba manager accused of sexually assaulting an employee, saying he committed \u201cforcible indecency\u201d but that it did not constitute a crime.<\/p>\n<p>In August a female employee of the e-commerce giant posted a lengthy statement accusing a manager of raping her during a business trip, and claiming that management at the company did not take her complaint seriously. Alibaba pledged to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/aug\/09\/police-launch-investigation-into-alibaba-sexual-assault-allegations\">cooperate with a police investigation<\/a>, fired the manager, and suspended other employees.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/07\/alibaba-sexual-assault-case-dropped-as-china-police-say-forcible-indecency-not-a\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manager accused of rape released after 15 days, the maximum punishment for someone who molests anotherProsecutors in China have dropped a case against an Alibaba manager accused of sexually assaulting an employee, saying he committed \u201cforcible indecenc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36563,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36562\/revisions\/36563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}