Some re-emerge weeks or months later without explanation, suggesting they are warned not to disclose they were detained or the reason.

Peng adds to a growing number of Chinese businesspeople, activists and citizens who have disappeared in recent years after criticising party figures or in crackdowns on corruption or pro-democracy and labour rights campaigns. вЂњIt was crowded at the restaurant as usual,вЂќ Zhou said, showing a bill that included noodles and bamboo shoots. Seven people including Peng were at the Sichuanese restaurant, said the manager, Zhou Hongwei, adding that they ate in a private room and were joined by the restaurantвЂ™s owner. The video content clearly shows they are shot on Saturday Beijing time. I acquired two video clips, which show Peng Shuai was having dinner with her coach and friends in a restaurant. Hu had also posted a video of the outing, which a restaurant manager confirmed to Reuters on Sunday. PengвЂ™s appearance at the tournament came after sheВ visited a popular restaurant in downtown Beijing on Saturday night. The United States and the United Kingdom have called for evidence of PengвЂ™s whereabouts and safety.ДЄ spokesman for the WTA told Reuters news agency that theВ photographs and video footage of Peng that emerged on Sunday remain вЂњinsufficientвЂќ and do not address its concerns. World tennis bodies have expressed concern, with the WomenвЂ™s Tennis Association (WTA) threatening to pull tournaments out of China. PengвЂ™s social media post was quickly deleted and the topic has been blocked from discussion on ChinaвЂ™s heavily censored internet. Neither Zhang nor the Chinese government has commented on her allegation. The former doubles world number one had not been seen or heard from publicly since she said on social media on November 2 that former vice-premier Zhang Gaoli had coerced her into sex, and they later had an on-off consensual relationship. Global Times photo reporter Cui Meng captured her at scene.

Peng Shuai showed up at the opening ceremony of a teenager tennis match final in Beijing on Sunday morning. Hu Xijin, editor of the Communist Party-owned Global Times, also released a 37-second video on Twitter that showed Peng watching the match with five other people. The photos were posted on the eventвЂ™s official WeChat page. Chinese sports star Peng Shuai has attended a tennis tournament in Beijing, according to official photos, amid mounting international concern about her whereabouts after she accused a senior Chinese leader of sexual assault.Д¬hina Open, which organised the tournament, published pictures of Peng at the Fila Kids Junior Tennis Challenger Finals on Sunday.

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