Is it illegal to read other people’s letters and alter other people’s letters? Which law was broken?

It is illegal to read or modify other people's letters. His behavior violated the "Public Security Administration Punishment Law" and was suspected of peeping into other people's privacy, and he should be given a public security administrative penalty in accordance with the law.

Legal Analysis

Nowadays, people pay more and more attention to the protection of privacy, but violations of privacy are still prohibited frequently. Behaviors such as peeking at other people's letters, peeping into other people's privacy, etc. all violate the law. According to the stipulated right of privacy, at the civil law level, the victim can request the infringer to bear the liability for the infringement, stop the infringement, apologize, etc. to relieve his or her rights.

Citizens’ freedom of communication is protected by law. Opening other people’s letters privately, if the circumstances are serious, can constitute a crime of infringing on freedom of communication. The crime of infringing on the freedom of communication refers to the serious act of concealing, destroying or illegally opening other people's letters and infringing on citizens' right to freedom of communication.

1. "Hide" means secretly hiding other people's letters;

2. "Destroy" means throwing away, tearing or burning other people's letters;

< p>3. "Illegal opening" means opening other people's letters without the consent of the recipient or sender or the approval of judicial authorities (because judicial authorities can seize mail and telegrams in accordance with legal procedures for investigating cases) .

What this crime infringes upon is the citizen's right to freedom of communication and confidentiality of communication. The object is other people's letters, but does not include official letters of state agencies. If the official letters of state agencies are destroyed, it does not constitute this crime but constitutes destruction. The crime of official documents from state agencies. The subject of this crime is a person who is over 16 years old and of sound mind.

Legal Basis

Article 42 of the "Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China" Whoever commits any of the following acts shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than 500 yuan The following fines shall be imposed; if the circumstances are more serious, the person 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 threatening the personal safety of others in other ways; (2) Blatantly insulting others or fabricating Slandering others with facts; (3) Fabricating facts to frame others in an attempt to subject others to criminal prosecution or public security penalties; (4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives; (5) Sending obscene, insulting, threatening or other information multiple times to interfere with the normal life of others; (6) Peeping, filming, eavesdropping, or disseminating other people's privacy.