Five held over viral clip of couple having sex in clothes shop changing room

Police have detained five people including a young couple over a sex tape shot in a Beijing clothing store that went viral in China, it emerged on Sunday. They detained the couple on Wednesday night, just hours after the footage showing a mostly clothed man and a naked woman apparently having sex in the changing room of a Uniqlo store in the capital went viral. "Five people were taken away by police including the man and woman who played the main role,“ a Chinese TV report said. "The police investigation has two main parts: who published this unsavoury video, and was it an example of hype by the business (Uniqlo),” it added.

We would like to remind all customers to abide by society’s moral standard… and properly and appropriately use our fitting rooms.

Uniqlo statement

The clip rapidly spread on China’s Twitter-like Weibo and mobile messaging service WeChat, with scores of people taking selfies outside the outlet, some mimicking the poses seen in the footage. But China’s online regulator the Cyberspace Administration of China had said distributing the footage was “against socialist core values”. The CAC ordered senior managers of Weibo’s operator Sina and Tencent, owner of WeChat, to co-operate in an investigation. The internet is heavily censored in China, with popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as YouTube, blocked.

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