What should you do if you encounter a death threat?

Handling death threats: You can call the police immediately. This behavior is an illegal behavior and if it does not constitute a crime, it should be punished by public security. According to relevant regulations, anyone who writes threatening letters or uses other methods to threaten the personal safety of others shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than 500 yuan; if the circumstances are more serious, he shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than 10 days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan. fine.

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 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 threatening others' personal safety 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.