Ex-Alibaba employee says ex-boss should be charged with rape

The former Alibaba employee accused her former manager of attempting to rape her while she was drunk and at times unconscious. — AP

TAIPEI, Taiwan: A former employee of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba has accused her then-manager of trying to rape her on a business trip last year as she pushes police to review charges in a case that has cast a rare spotlight on workplace harassment in the country.

The employee, a woman identified only by her last name Zhou, alleged in a lengthy account posted online this week that there were inconsistencies in a police statement about the case that she says led to online victim blaming against her. That came a week after a second man in the case was sentenced to 18 months in prison for sexual assault.