Is it illegal to send messages to harass others?

Sending harassing text messages is illegal. If you only engage in sexual harassment online without taking specific actions, it does not constitute a crime, but it is an illegal act, and you will be detained for less than five days or fined less than 500 yuan.

1. What are the main forms of sexual harassment?

1. Oral way: tease each other with the following language and tell each other about personal sexual experiences, pornographic jokes or pornographic literature;

2. Action mode: intentionally touching, bumping and kissing the other person's face, breasts, legs, buttocks, genitals and other sexually sensitive parts;

3. Setting the environment: arranging obscene pictures and advertisements around the workplace to embarrass each other.

Sexual harassment in a broad sense is not limited to the opposite sex, and the object is not only women; Same sex can also constitute sexual harassment.

Malicious harassment of others generally does not constitute a crime, but if the circumstances are bad, it constitutes a crime of provoking trouble. Specifically:

1. Malicious harassment of others will be punished by public security administration, with detention of less than five days or a fine of less than 500 yuan;

2. Whoever constitutes a crime of stirring up trouble shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or public surveillance.

Second, what are the constitutive elements of the crime of stirring up trouble?

1, object element. The object of the crime of stirring up trouble is public order. The so-called public order includes the order of public places and the same rules that people should abide by in their lives.

2. objective factors. Objectively, the crime of stirring up trouble is manifested as stirring up trouble, making trouble without reason, beating and hurting innocent people, wantonly provoking, bullying and disturbing public order. The objective behavior of the crime of stirring up trouble is stipulated as follows:

(1) beating others at will, and the circumstances are bad. Beating others at will refers to beating people you know or don't know for no reason, because of unhealthy motives such as bullying and playfulness. The bad plot here refers to those who beat others at will by cruel means and beat others at will many times; Causing serious consequences such as suicide of the beaten person;

(two) chasing, intercepting or insulting others, and the circumstances are bad. Chasing, intercepting and abusing others refers to unhealthy motives such as having fun, chasing, obstructing, insulting and abusing others without any reason, which are mostly manifested in chasing, intercepting and abusing women. Bad circumstances mainly refer to frequent pursuit, interception and abuse of others; Causing bad influence or arousing public anger; Cause other consequences and so on. Acts that use violence, coercion or other methods to force lewdness and insult women constitute the crime of forced lewdness and insult to women;

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Forty-second "People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Management Punishment Law"

One of the following acts shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined up to five hundred yuan:

(1) writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others by other means;

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

(3) fabricating facts, falsely accusing and framing others, and attempting to subject others to criminal investigation or public security administration punishment;

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

(5) sending obscene, insulting, intimidating or other information for many times to interfere with the normal life of others;

(six) voyeurism, sneak shots, eavesdropping, spreading the privacy of others.