It was a heartfelt letter calling for China’s prestigious Peking University to make public its investigation into a decades-old alleged rape and suicide that galvanised China’s fledgling #MeToo movement. The university had “twisted the truth” when summoning her mother late on Sunday night, Yue said, “frightening” her mother and causing her to have an “emotional meltdown”. Yue’s original petition called for Peking University to publicly air its investigation into a former professor accused of raping and sexual harassing a student in 1998. The student’s friends came forward this month, saying the victim was driven to suicide as a result, prompting a wave of other reports of campus sexual harassment at other universities. The #MeToo movement was triggered by accusations by dozens of women against US film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, including rape, triggering a wider scandal that has roiled Hollywood and beyond.

Source: Hindustan Times April 24, 2018 09:56 UTC