Didi Chuxing files lawsuits after 'sexual assault videos' using its name

Didi Chuxing, the Beijing-based Chinese online ride-hailing platform, has filed lawsuits against a couple using its name to film "sexual assault videos" and the live-streaming platform that broadcasts pornography, it said on Monday.

The company stated on its Weibo account that the company called police after noticing the online live broadcast, "DiDi Driver Sexually Assaulting a Woman" on Wednesday. The investigation results from the police showed that the man and woman in the video are a couple. The company also learned that the two are not online ride-hailing drivers for DiDi Chuxing.

On Friday, the Zhengzhou Public Security bureau in Central China's Henan province released a statement that said the couple used the name of an online ride-hailing company in a video of a driver raping a female passenger as a stunt and that they performed sexually explicit acts in public through an illegal live streaming platform application to attract viewers to make profits. The two have been arrested.

The company said that the couple's behavior and the live-streaming platform Xinglian Live Broadcast have hurt the company's reputation and that of its driver community. DiDi has filed a lawsuit with the Beijing Internet Court, seeking legal responsibility against the platform, producers and participants of the live streaming event.