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China sentences Chinese-Canadian star Kris Wu to 13 years

A Beijing court on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022, sentenced Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu to 13 years in prison on charges including rape. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

A Chinese court on Friday sentenced Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu to 13 years in prison on charges including rape.

Beijing's Chaoyang District Court said Wu was given 11 years and 6 months for a 2020 rape, and 1 year and 10 months for the "crime of assembling a crowd to engage in sexual promiscuity" in a 2018 event in which he and others allegedly assaulted two women they had gotten drunk.

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