{"id":1233015,"date":"2022-01-23T11:22:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T16:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1233015"},"modified":"2022-01-23T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T16:22:09","slug":"watch-australian-open-fans-asked-to-remove-t-shirts-asking-where-is-peng-shuai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-australian-open-fans-asked-to-remove-t-shirts-asking-where-is-peng-shuai\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Australian Open Fans Asked to Remove T-Shirts Asking &#039;Where Is Peng Shuai?&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-australian-open-fans-asked-to-remove-t-shirts-asking-where-is-peng-shuai%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1233015&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Fans at the Australian Open were asked to remove tee shirts with the slogan \u201cWhere is Peng Shuai?\u201d an allusion to the continuing mystery surrounding the whereabouts of a Chinese tennis star who accused that country\u2019s vice president of rape.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart\u2019s Warner Todd Huston <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/12\/19\/peng-shuai-denies-making-sexual-assault-charges-against-chinese-vice-premier\/\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Early in November, Shuai&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/11\/19\/tom-cotton-issues-ominous-warning-us-olympic-athletes-after-chinese-tennis-players-mysterious-disappearance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a>&nbsp;a message to her Chinese social media account saying that she had been sexually abused in 2019 by Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli. But her Weibo account was quickly shut down and the post was deleted. Shuai then spent nearly a month in isolation, not being seen on her own in public for more than three weeks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These events led to international worry and outcry over Peng Shuai\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, in a widely shared video on social media, Australian police and event security officials can be seen telling a group of spectators that they would have to remove their \u201cWhere is Peng Shuai?\u201d tee shirts. Due to rules set forth by Tennis Australia which ban political messaging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Australian Open does have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\">rule<\/a> that you can\u2019t have political slogans \u2026 it\u2019s a rule that it\u2019s a condition of entry.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTennis Australia does set the rules, and regardless of what you\u2019re saying \u2014 and I\u2019m not saying you can\u2019t have those views \u2014 but I am saying that Tennis Australia sets the rules here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Security is] allowed to confiscate the shirts and the banner.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Interestingly, journalists can ask questions about the Peng Shuai situation to players, but fans, seemingly, aren&#8217;t allowed to\u2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AusOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SCqNlH2bOx\">pic.twitter.com\/SCqNlH2bOx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Walsh (@MattWalshMedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWalshMedia\/status\/1485052235251957760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A spokesperson from Tennis Australia told ESPN that their decision to have security force the fans to remove the tee shirts was made for Peng Shuai\u2019s \u201csafety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder our ticket conditions of entry we don\u2019t allow clothing, banners or signs that are commercial or political,\u201d a spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/33126848\/australian-open-officials-ask-fans-remove-t-shirts-slogan-where-peng-shuai\">said<\/a>&nbsp;via ESPN. \u201cPeng Shuai\u2019s safety is our primary concern. We continue to work with the WTA and global tennis community to seek more clarity on her situation and will do everything we can to ensure her well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/chinese-vicepremier-zhang-gaoli-makes-a-speech-during-the-philippines-picture-id615787530\" alt=\"Chinese Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli makes a speech during the Philippines - China Trade and Investment Fourm at the Great Hall of the People on October...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Chinese Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli makes a speech on October 20, 2016, in Beijing, China. (Wu Hong-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of course, asking about the safety and whereabouts of a woman who mysteriously vanishes after accusing a ruthless regime member of rape is not a political act. Nor is there any evidence to suggest that increasing public awareness and attention to Peng Shuai\u2019s case would put her life in danger. In fact, it was primarily due to public outcry and the Women\u2019s Tennis Association that China felt it necessary to release an albeit heavily coerced video of the tennis star recanting her rape accusations against the Chinese vice president.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zh\" dir=\"ltr\">\u5f6d\u5e05 \u91c7\u8bbf\u89c6\u9891 \u81ea\u5df1\u4ece\u672a\u53d7\u5230\u5f20\u9ad8\u4e3d\u6027\u4fb5 pengshuai <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kodDImEhVd\">pic.twitter.com\/kodDImEhVd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83d\udd38 (@0_o_________o_O) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0_o_________o_O\/status\/1472590379421601796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Even more troubling is that reporters attending the Australian Open are under no restriction from asking questions about Peng Shuai. If wearing a tee shirt asking \u201cWhere is Peng Shuai?\u201d poses a threat to her life, one would think asking questions about her safety in a press conference would also pose a threat. Moreover, none of the athletes at the Open are forbidden from addressing the topic either.<\/p>\n<p>WTA Council Member Victoria Azarenka said that there \u201chasn\u2019t been that much development in terms of contact with Peng Shuai.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans at the Australian Open were asked to remove tee shirts with the slogan \u201cWhere is Peng Shuai?\u201d an allusion to the continuing mystery surrounding the whereabouts of a Chinese &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}