Huawei was fiercely criticized by Chinese public opinion for ‘unfairly prosecuting prices’, which caused ex-employees to be jailed for 8 months

Tram Ho

The incident has been the subject of much Chinese media talk in recent days on Weibo. The hashtag “Former detained Huawei employee hoping Huawei made an apology” has been viewed 230 million times on Weibo since the incident spread online.

According to Reuters, Li Hongyuan, 35, had worked at Huawei for about 13 years. At the end of 2017, this employee was not renewed by Huawei. The reason is thought to be due to Li Hongyuan reporting to the company leadership about the fraud that took place internally, specifically the Li division working in 2016.

After resigning, Li expressed his desire to receive 331,000 yuan (about 47,000 USD) of compensation from Huawei. In March 2018, Huawei transferred 300,000 yuan to Li’s account. However, in December 2018, Li was suddenly arrested by Chinese police for allegedly blackmailing Huawei with the money.

Huawei bị dư luận Trung Quốc chỉ trích dữ dội vì vu oan giá họa khiến nhân viên cũ phải ngồi tù oan 8 tháng - Ảnh 1.

According to CNN, Huawei has confirmed that the money transferred to Li’s account was at the request of the former employee through pressure on the company. However, after 251 days in detention, the prosecutor was forced to release Li Hongyuan in August 2019 due to insufficient evidence to prove the former employee blackmailed the former company. It is reported that Li secretly recorded all conversations with Huawei’s personnel department during the severance negotiation. The recordings were later sent to court as evidence that Li was completely innocent.

In a media interview, Li Hongyuan said he was waiting for an apology from Huawei.

“I hope Huawei will contact me again. It is best that its founder and CEO, Mr. Ren Zhengfei,” Li said.

Huawei’s representative, meanwhile, said the company will respect the decisions of the authorities including the court and the procuracy.

“We do not object to Li’s guarantee of his rights by legal actions, including suing Huawei. This is in accordance with the principle of equality before the law,” said a Huawei representative.

Huawei bị dư luận Trung Quốc chỉ trích dữ dội vì vu oan giá họa khiến nhân viên cũ phải ngồi tù oan 8 tháng - Ảnh 2.

Li wants CEO Ren Zhengfei himself to apologize.

Huawei suffered fierce criticism from the public for its ‘dirty play’.

It is known that Li’s case was exposed publicly in late November. A document circulated on Chinese social networks showed that Li was compensated by the Chinese government at 107,522 yuan (about $ 15,000) for an unjust prison from December 2018 to August 2019. This document is believed to have leaked from a county prosecutor’s office in Shenzhen City.

Huawei then suffered a wave of harsh criticism from public opinion and media in China. Most of the criticisms require Huawei to apologize to Li Hongyuan.

According to Reuters, this is an event that is considered ‘rare’ in the context that the technology company is receiving great support from the Chinese people.

Huawei bị dư luận Trung Quốc chỉ trích dữ dội vì vu oan giá họa khiến nhân viên cũ phải ngồi tù oan 8 tháng - Ảnh 3.

After Huawei was blacklisted by the US government, it focused more on doing business in the domestic market. Currently, Huawei is reaching a record market share in the Chinese phone market, accounting for 42%. However, the recent incident has caused many Chinese people to turn away from this technology company.

“This time, Huawei has betrayed its supporters,” Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Global Times, wrote on Weibo. Currently, on this social network, there are many comments expressing sympathy with the former Huawei employee, and harshly criticizing the “dirty play” of Chinese technology company.

“You graduate from one of the top universities in China. You work up to 6 days a week, 12 hours a day. Then you get fired at the age of 35, even detained for 251 days when claim their legitimate rights, “a Weibo user” exclaimed “about the incident.

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Source : Trí Thức Trẻ