“Insufficient evidence on harassment”, the court wronged the champion of Chinese #MeToo. “But we go on”

BEIJING – “Insufficient evidence to prove sexual harassment”. With a statement of just eight lines, the Haidian People’s Court buried the hopes of Zhou Xiaoxuan and condemned, probably to eternal silence, the shy #MeToo who has laboriously tried to make his voice heard in China over the years.

After ten hours of hearing, leaving the courtroom on Tuesday night in this district in northwestern Beijing, with the red-covered civil code in hand, Zhou could not hold back tears in front of the small group of supporters who gathered at the exit of the court, watched over by uniformed and plainclothes policemen.