China Professor Fired Over Harassment Claims in Rare #MeToo Win

Claims of sexual abuse at a top university in China led to a professor’s swift termination and police investigation, a rare response in a country where officials treat the #MeToo movement with suspicion and accusers are often censored.

A professor at the elite Renmin University identified as Wang was fired from his school and removed as a Communist Party member on Monday, a day after a PhD student accused him of sexual harassment on social media. Beijing police said they opened an investigation.

The university has “zero tolerance” for teachers’ misconduct, it said in a statement on Weibo on Monday ...