Baidu founder Robin Li's water attacker detained as drenching incident goes viral

The man who drenched Baidu’s billionaire co-founder Robin Li Yanhong with water as he was giving a presentation at the company’s annual tech event in Beijing on Wednesday will be detained for five days for the offence.

Chaoyang district police announced the detention on their Weibo account on Thursday after concluding an investigation into the stunt, which shocked attendees, stole the limelight from the company’s latest AI announcements and sparked a social media frenzy in China.