By Sunday, police had arrested nine people on suspicion of violent assault in the case. The attack on four women dining at a restaurant in Tangshan, a coastal city east of Beijing, early Friday morning was seen in surveillance footage shared widely on Weibo. “More concerned about the Tangshan matter,” said the top comment on Weibo in response to the Political and Legal Affairs’ account. Many online users criticized the timing of the trial announcement. Wu’s trial Friday at the Chaoyang People’s court was reported late Friday night by Chang’An Net, which belongs to the powerful Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, a commission controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. TAIPEI, Taiwan-Chinese Canadian pop star Kris Wu has faced rape and other criminal charges at a closed trial in Beijing as Chinese citizens were in uproar over a video showing a group of men physically assaulting four women in another city.
