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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Amy Hawkins

Anger grows in China over reports of online groups sharing explicit photos of women

Telegram app login screen is shown on a smartphone.
The Telegram app is banned in China, but can be accessed using a VPN. Photograph: ANP/Alamy

Anger is growing on Chinese social media after news reports revealed the existence of online groups, said to involve hundreds of thousands of Chinese men, which shared photographs of women, including sexually explicit ones, taken without their consent.

The Chinese newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily published a report last week about a group on the encrypted messaging app Telegram called “MaskPark tree hole forum”. It said it had more than 100,000 members and was “comprised entirely of Chinese men”.

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