Horrific footage of women being assaulted in a restaurant in China has triggered a debate over misogynistic violence in the country.
Nine men brutally assaulted a group of four females in a restaurant after one resisted to being sexually harassed.
Several more men join the violence and attack them, with one being beaten with a chair and another dragged from the restaurant by her hair.Two women sustained non-life-threatening injuries and were being treated in hospital, according to officials. On Weibo, which has more than half a million users, discussion of the video took up the six top trending topic slots.A widely shared WeChat post on Saturday took issue with the initial official framing of the assault as a simple act of violence.
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