Are verbal threats illegal?

Responsibility needs to be determined based on specific circumstances.

According to 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 detained for not more than five days or fined not more than 500 yuan; if the circumstances are more serious, , 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 by other means.

(2) Blatantly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others;

(3) Fabricating facts to frame others in an attempt to subject others to criminal prosecution or public security management penalties;

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

(5) Repeatedly sending obscene, insulting, threatening or other messages to interfere with others In normal life;

(6) Peeping, filming, eavesdropping, and spreading other people’s privacy.

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Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China:

Chapter 1 General Provisions

Article 1 ?This law is formulated in order to maintain social order, ensure public security, protect the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, legal persons and other organizations, regulate and ensure that public security organs and their people's police perform their public security management duties in accordance with the law.

Article 2: Disturbing public order, impeding public safety, infringing upon personal rights and property rights, impeding social management, and having social harm, in accordance with the "People's Republic of China and the State Council" If it constitutes a crime under the provisions of the Criminal Law, criminal responsibility shall be investigated in accordance with the law; if it is not enough for criminal punishment, the public security organs shall impose public security administrative penalties in accordance with this law.

Article 3: The procedures for public security management penalties shall be governed by the provisions of this Law; if there are no provisions in this Law, the relevant provisions of the "Administrative Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China" shall apply.

Article 4: This law shall apply to violations of public security management that occur within the territory of the People's Republic of China, unless otherwise provided by law.

This law shall apply to violations of public security management that occur on board ships and aircraft of the People's Republic of China, except where there are special provisions in the law.

Article 5: Public security management penalties must be based on facts and be commensurate with the nature, circumstances and degree of social harm of violations of public security management.

The implementation of public security management penalties should be open and fair, respect and protect human rights, and protect the personal dignity of citizens.

The principle of combining education and punishment should be adhered to when handling public security cases.

Article 6: People’s governments at all levels shall strengthen comprehensive management of social security and take effective measures to resolve social conflicts, enhance social harmony, and maintain social stability.

Article 7: The public security department of the State Council is responsible for public security management nationwide. The public security organs of local people's governments at or above the county level are responsible for the public security management within their respective administrative regions.

The jurisdiction over public security cases shall be stipulated by the public security department of the State Council.

Article 8: If any violation of public security management causes damage to others, the perpetrator or his guardian shall bear civil liability in accordance with the law.

Article 9: For minor violations of public security management such as fights or damage to other people’s property caused by civil disputes, the public security organs may mediate and deal with them. If the parties reach an agreement through mediation by the public security organ, no punishment will be imposed.

If no agreement is reached after mediation or the agreement is not fulfilled after reaching an agreement, the public security organs shall punish the perpetrators of violations of public security management in accordance with the provisions of this Law and inform the parties that they may file a civil lawsuit with the People's Court for civil disputes in accordance with the law. .

Chapter 2 Types and Application of Punishments

Article 10: Types of public security management penalties are divided into:

(1) Warning;

(2) Fine;

(3) Administrative detention;

(4) Revoking the license issued by the public security organ.

Foreigners who violate public security management may be subject to additional time limits to leave the country or be deported.

Article 11: Drugs, obscene materials and other contraband seized in handling public security cases, gambling equipment, gambling money, equipment for smoking and injecting drugs, and personal tools directly used to commit violations of public security management , should be collected and dealt with in accordance with regulations.

Properties obtained from violations of public security management shall be recovered and returned to the person who has been violated; if there is no victim, they shall be registered and publicly auctioned or disposed of in accordance with relevant national regulations, and the proceeds shall be turned over to the state treasury.

Article 12 If a person who is over 14 years old but under 18 years old violates public security management, he shall be given a lighter or reduced punishment; if a person who is under 14 years old violates public security management, he shall not be punished, but he shall be ordered to Guardians exercise strict discipline.

Article 13: Mental patients who violate public security management when they are unable to identify or control their own behavior shall not be punished, but their guardians shall be ordered to strictly monitor and treat them. Intermittent mental patients who violate public security management when they are mentally normal should be punished.

Article 14: If a blind or deaf-mute person violates public security management, he may be given a lighter punishment, a reduced punishment, or no punishment.

Article 15: Drunk people who violate public security management shall be punished.

If a drunk person is in danger to himself or threatens the personal, property or public safety of others, protective measures shall be taken to restrain him until he sobers up.

Article 16: If there are two or more violations of public security management, they shall be decided separately and executed together. If administrative detention penalties are combined, the maximum period shall not exceed 20 days.

Article 17: If two persons violate public security management, they shall be punished separately according to the role played by the perpetrators in the violation of public security management.

Those who instigate, coerce, or deceive others to violate public security management shall be punished according to their instigation, coercion, or deception.

Article 18: If a unit violates public security management, the person directly in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of this law. If other laws and administrative regulations stipulate that the unit should be punished for the same behavior, the punishment shall be in accordance with its provisions.

Article 19: Anyone who violates public security management under any of the following circumstances shall be given a reduced punishment or no punishment:

(1) The circumstances are particularly minor;

(2) Taking the initiative to eliminate or reduce the consequences of the violation and obtaining the understanding of the offended person;

(3) Due to coercion or deception by others;

(4) Taking the initiative to surrender, Truthfully stating one's illegal behavior to the public security organs;

(5) Having meritorious service.

Article 20: Anyone who violates public security management under any of the following circumstances shall be severely punished:

(1) There are more serious consequences;

(2) ) Instigating, coercing, or tricking others into violating public security management;

(3) Retaliating against the reporter, accuser, whistleblower, or witness;

(4) 6 months Those who have been punished by public security management within the country.

Article 21: If a person who violates public security management has any of the following circumstances and should be given an administrative detention penalty in accordance with this law, the administrative detention penalty will not be implemented:

(1) Those who are over 14 years old but under 16 years old;

(2) Those who are over 16 years old but under 18 years old and violate public security management for the first time;

(3) Those who are over 70 years old;

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(4) Pregnant or breastfeeding a baby under 1 year old.

Article 22: Violations of public security management that are not discovered by the public security organs within 6 months will no longer be punished.

The period specified in the preceding paragraph shall be calculated from the date when the violation of public security management occurs; if the violation of public security management is continuous or continuing, it shall be calculated from the date when the violation of public security management is terminated.

Chapter 3 Behaviors and Punishments that Violate Public Security Management

Section 1 Behaviors and Punishments that Disrupt Public Order

Article 23? Anyone who commits any of the following acts shall be given a warning or a fine of not more than 200 yuan; if the circumstances are more serious, he shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan:

(1) Disturbing the organs, The order of groups, enterprises, and institutions prevents normal work, production, business, medical care, teaching, and scientific research without causing serious losses;

(2) Disrupting stations, ports, docks, airports, and shopping malls , parks, exhibition halls or other public places;

(3) Disturbing the order on buses, trams, trains, ships, aircraft or other public transportation means ;

(4) Illegally intercepting, forcibly boarding, or boarding motor vehicles, ships, aircraft, and other means of transportation, affecting the normal operation of means of transportation;

(5) Destruction of activities carried out in accordance with the law of the electoral order.

Where a crowd is gathered to commit the acts mentioned in the preceding paragraph, the ringleaders shall be detained for not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days, and may also be fined not more than 1,000 yuan.

Article 24: Anyone who commits any of the following acts and disrupts the order of large-scale mass activities such as culture and sports shall be given a warning or fined not more than 200 yuan; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be fined not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days. Detention may be imposed and a fine of not more than 500 yuan may be imposed:

(1) Forcibly entering the venue;

(2) Violating regulations by setting off fireworks or other items in the venue;

(3) Displaying insulting slogans, banners and other items;

(4) Besieging referees, athletes or other staff;

(5) Throwing debris into the venue and refusing to listen to restraint;

(6) Other behaviors that disrupt the order of large-scale mass activities.

Those who are detained for disrupting the order of sports competitions may also be ordered not to enter sports venues to watch similar competitions within 12 months; those who enter sports venues in violation of regulations will be forcibly removed from the site.

Article 25: Whoever commits any of the following acts shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan; if the circumstances are relatively minor, he shall be detained for not more than 5 days or fined not more than 500 yuan. The following fines are imposed:

(1) Spreading rumors, falsely reporting dangers, epidemics, police situations, or deliberately disrupting public order in other ways;

(2) Placing false explosives , toxic, radioactive, corrosive substances or infectious disease pathogens and other dangerous substances that disrupt public order;

(3) Threatening to commit arson, explosions, or dropping dangerous substances to disrupt public order; .

Article 26: Anyone who commits any of the following acts shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan; if the circumstances are more serious, he shall be detained for not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days. Detention and a fine of not more than 1,000 yuan may be imposed:

(1) Fighting in groups;

(2) Chasing or intercepting others;

(3) Taking forcibly or arbitrarily damaging or occupying public or private property;

(4) Other acts of provoking quarrels and provoking trouble.

Article 27: Anyone who commits any of the following acts shall be detained for not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days, and may also be fined not more than 1,000 yuan; if the circumstances are relatively minor, he shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days. , may be concurrently imposed a fine of up to 500 yuan:

(1) Organizing, instigating, coercing, luring, and inciting others to engage in cult, Taoism, or superstitious activities to disrupt social order and harm the health of others Healthy;

(2) Pretending to use the name of religion or qigong to engage in activities that disrupt social order and harm the health of others.

Article 28: Anyone who violates national regulations and intentionally interferes with the normal operation of radio services, or causes harmful interference to normally operating radio stations (stations), refuses to take effective measures after being pointed out by the relevant competent authorities. If the measures are eliminated, the person shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days; if the circumstances are serious, the person shall be detained for not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days.

Article 29: Anyone who commits any of the following acts shall be detained for not more than 5 days; if the circumstances are more serious, he shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days:

(1) Violating national regulations by intruding into computer information systems and causing harm;

(2) Violating national regulations by deleting, modifying, adding, or interfering with the functions of computer information systems, causing the computer information systems to fail to operate normally;

(3) Violating national regulations by deleting, modifying, or adding data and applications stored, processed, and transmitted in computer information systems;

(4) Deliberately making, Spreading computer viruses and other destructive programs that affect the normal operation of computer information systems.

Section 2 Behaviors and Punishments that Hinder Public Safety

Article 30: Violate national regulations, manufacture, buy, sell, store, transport, mail, carry, use, Anyone who provides or handles dangerous substances such as explosive, toxic, radioactive, corrosive substances or infectious disease pathogens shall be detained for not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days; if the circumstances are relatively minor, he shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days.

Article 31: If dangerous substances such as explosive, poisonous, radioactive, corrosive substances or infectious disease pathogens are stolen, robbed or lost and fail to report in accordance with regulations, they shall be detained for not more than 5 days; Those who deliberately conceal and fail to report shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days.

Article 32: Anyone who illegally carries firearms, ammunition, or crossbows, daggers and other state-regulated instruments shall be detained for not more than 5 days and may be fined not more than 500 yuan; if the circumstances are relatively minor, he shall be fined not more than 500 yuan. Warning or fine of not more than 200 yuan.

Anyone who illegally carries firearms, ammunition, or crossbows, daggers and other state-regulated instruments into public places or public transportation vehicles shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days, and may also be fined 500 A fine of less than RMB 10,000.

Article 33: Anyone who commits any of the following acts shall be detained for not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days:

(1) Stealing or damaging oil and gas pipeline facilities, electric power and telecommunications facilities, Radio and television facilities, water conservancy and flood control engineering facilities, or public facilities such as hydrological monitoring, surveying, meteorological forecasting, environmental monitoring, geological monitoring, and earthquake monitoring;

(2) Moving or damaging national border monuments , boundary markers and other border signs, border facilities or territorial or territorial sea marking facilities;

(3) Illegal activities that affect the direction of the national (border) boundary or the construction of facilities that hinder national (border) border management of.

Article 34: Anyone who steals, damages or moves aviation facilities in use without authorization, or forcibly enters the cockpit of an aircraft shall be detained for not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days.

Anyone who uses instruments or tools that may affect the normal function of the navigation system on an aircraft in use and refuses to listen to dissuasion shall be detained for not more than 5 days or fined not more than 500 yuan.

Article 35: Anyone who commits any of the following acts shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan; if the circumstances are relatively minor, he shall be detained for not more than 5 days or fined not more than 500 yuan. The following fines are imposed:

(1) Stealing, damaging or moving railway facilities, equipment, rolling stock accessories or safety signs without authorization;

(2) Placing obstacles on railway lines, Or deliberately throwing objects at trains;

(3) Digging holes, quarrying rocks and sand at railway lines, bridges, and culverts;

(4) On railway lines Private crossings or level crossings.

Article 36: Anyone who enters the railway protection net without authorization or walks, sits or lies on the railway line when the train is approaching, or rushes over the railway, which affects driving safety, shall be given a warning or a fine of not more than 200 yuan.

Article 37: Anyone who commits any of the following acts shall be detained for not more than 5 days or fined not more than 500 yuan; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan. Fines:

(1) Installing and using power grids without approval, or installing and using power grids that do not comply with safety regulations;

(2) In places where vehicles and pedestrians pass During construction, no coverings, barriers and warning signs are installed on trenches, wells and ridges, or the coverings, barriers and warning signs are intentionally damaged or moved;

(3) Theft or damage to road manhole covers, Lighting and other public facilities.

Article 38: Anyone who holds cultural, sports or other large-scale mass activities in violation of relevant regulations and risks a safety accident shall be ordered to stop the activities and evacuate immediately; the organizer shall be punished for not less than 5 days but not less than 10 days Detention for less than 5 days and a fine of not less than 200 yuan but not more than 500 yuan; if the circumstances are relatively minor, the person shall be detained for not more than 5 days or fined not more than 500 yuan.

Article 39: Operations and management personnel of hotels, restaurants, theaters, entertainment venues, sports venues, exhibition halls or other places for public activities violate safety regulations, causing safety accidents in the place If the person is dangerous and refuses to make corrections after being ordered by the public security organ, he shall be detained for not more than 5 days.

Section 3 Acts and Punishments that Violate Personal and Property Rights

Article 40: Anyone who commits any of the following acts shall be detained for not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days, and shall also be fined 500 A fine of not less than 1,000 yuan but not more than 1,000 yuan; if the circumstances are relatively minor, he or she shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days, and shall be fined not less than 200 yuan but not more than 500 yuan:

(1) Organizing, coercing, or deceiving persons under the age of 16 Carrying out horrific or cruel performances against people or persons with disabilities;

(2) Using violence, threats or other means to force others to work;

(3) Illegally restricting others’ personal freedom, illegally Invading other people's homes or illegally searching other people's bodies.

Article 41: Anyone who coerces, deceives or uses others to beg shall be detained for not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days, and may be fined not more than 1,000 yuan.

Those who repeatedly pester, forcibly beg, or beg in other ways that disturb others will be detained for not more than 5 days or given a warning.

Article 42: Anyone who commits any of the following acts shall be detained for not more than 5 days or fined not more than 500 yuan; if the circumstances are more serious, he shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan. The following fines apply:

(1) Writing threatening letters or threatening others’ personal safety in other ways;

(2) Blatantly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others;

(3) Fabricating facts and falsely accusing 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) Repeatedly sending obscene, insulting, threatening or other information, interfering with the normal life of others;

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

Article 43: Anyone who beats others or intentionally injures others shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days, and shall be fined not less than 200 yuan but not more than 500 yuan; if the circumstances are relatively minor, he shall be fined not less than 500 yuan but not more than 500 yuan. Detention of not more than 50 days or fine of not more than 500 yuan.

Whoever commits any of the following circumstances shall be detained for not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days, and shall be fined not less than 500 yuan but not more than 1,000 yuan:

(1) Grouping to beat or injure others;

(2) Beating or injuring the disabled, pregnant women, people under 14 years old or people over 60 years old;

(3) Beating or injuring others multiple times or beating once , hurting many people.

Article 44: Anyone who molests others, or intentionally exposes his body in public places, if the circumstances are serious, shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days; who molests intellectually disabled persons, mentally ill persons, and dissatisfied persons Anyone who is 14 years old or has other serious circumstances shall be detained for not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days.

Article 45: Anyone who commits any of the following acts shall be detained for not more than 5 days or given a warning:

(1) Abuse a family member and the person being abused requests to be dealt with;

(2) Abandoning a dependent who has no ability to live independently.

Article 46: Whoever forcefully buys or sells goods, forces others to provide services or forces others to receive services shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days, and shall be fined not less than 200 yuan but not more than 500 yuan; If the offense is more serious, he shall be detained for not more than 5 days or fined not more than 500 yuan.

Article 47: Anyone who incites ethnic hatred or discrimination, or publishes ethnic discrimination or insulting content in publications or computer information networks shall be detained for not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days, and may also be fined 1,000 A fine of less than RMB 10,000.

Article 48: Anyone who falsely claims, conceals, destroys, opens privately, or illegally inspects other people's mail shall be detained for not more than 5 days or fined not more than 500 yuan.

Article 49: Anyone who steals, defrauds, robs, snatches, extorts or intentionally damages public or private property shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan; if the circumstances are serious, , shall be detained for not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days, and may also be fined not more than 1,000 yuan.

Baidu Encyclopedia—Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China