I have been divorced from my ex-husband for a few months. He keeps sending me messages to harass me. Can I sue him for harassment?

Yes.

You can call the police if your ex-husband keeps harassing you. The "Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble" stipulates: The perpetrators carry out behaviors such as beating, insulting, intimidating others, damaging or occupying other people's property due to disputes over marriage, family, neighborhood, debt, etc. Generally, it is not considered as "picking quarrels and provoking troubles", except for those who continue to carry out the above behaviors after being criticized and stopped or dealt with and punished by the relevant departments, and disrupting social order.

If the other party’s harassment is not too serious, calling the police will only give him a few words of reprimand. However, if the harassment is repeated, the police can detain him. If he is sentenced, Only those acts that violate the above criminal law provisions.

Legal basis:

Article 42 of the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Public Security Administration Punishments"

Whoever commits any of the following acts shall be punished Detention for not more than five days or a fine of not more than five hundred yuan; if the circumstances are more serious, he shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than five hundred yuan:

(1) Writing threatening letters or otherwise Threaten the personal safety of others;

(2) Blatantly insult others or fabricate facts to slander others;

(3) Fabricate facts to frame others in an attempt to subject others to criminal prosecution or Being punished by public security administration;

(4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives;

(5) Repeatedly sending obscene, insulting, Intimidation or other information that interferes with the normal life of others;

(6) Peeping, filming, eavesdropping, or spreading other people's privacy.