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	DECISION OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS REGARDING THE SEVERE PUNISHMENT OF CRIMINALS WHO SERIOUSLY ENDANGER PUBLIC SECURITY

	(Adopted at the Second Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Sixth National People's Congress and promulgated for implementation by Order No. 3 of the President of the People's Republic of China on September 2, 1983)


SUBJECT : SERIOUSLY ENDANGER PUBLIC SECURITY
ISSUING DEPARTMENT : THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
ISSUE DATE : 09/02/1983
IMPLEMENT DATE : 09/02/1983
LENGTH : 333 words
TEXT :

In order to maintain public security, ensure the safety of the lives and property of the people and safeguard the smooth progress of the socialist construction, it is imperative to subject criminals that seriously endanger public security to severe punishment. To this end it is decided:

1. Punishment above the maximum punishment stipulated in the
Criminal Law, up to and including death sentences, may be inflicted on the following criminals who seriously endanger public security:

(1) ringleaders of criminal hooligan groups or those who carry lethal weapons to engage in criminal hooligan activities, if the circumstances are serious, or those who engage in criminal hooligan activities leading to especially serious consequences;

(2) whoever intentionally inflicts serious bodily injury upon another person or causes the person's death, if the circumstances are flagrant, or whoever commits violence and injures a state functionary or citizen who has accused, exposed or arrested a criminal or stopped a criminal act;

(3) ringleaders of groups who abduct and traffic in human beings, or whoever abducts and traffics in human beings when the circumstances are especially serious;

(4) whoever illegally manufactures, trades in, transports, steals or forcibly seizes guns, ammunition or explosives, when the circumstances are especially serious or when serious consequences are caused;

(5) whoever organizes reactionary secret societies or uses feudal superstition to carry on counterrevolutionary activities, thereby seriously endangering public security; or

(6) whoever lures or forces a woman into prostitution or shelters her in prostitution, when the circumstances are especially serious.

2. Whoever imparts criminal methods, when the circumstances are relatively minor, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years; when the circumstances are serious, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years; and when the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to life imprisonment or death.

3. This Decision shall, upon its promulgation, be applicable to the adjudication of the criminal cases mentioned above.

APPENDIX: THE RELEVANT ARTICLES IN THE CRIMINAL LAW
(omitted)