I am a primary school principal, and some teachers used letters and text messages to slander and frame me after their successful competition for employment after the summer vacation. What should I do?

Q: I am a primary school principal. After the summer vacation, when a teacher competed successfully, I defamed me with letters and text messages. What should I do?

A: The Scout Law Online Consultation will answer your question.

Sending you a text message alone is not slander, insult or crime. However, according to Article 42 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Public Security Administration Punishment, administrative punishment may be given.

Article 42 of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law shall be detained for less than five days or fined less than five hundred yuan for any of the following acts; If the circumstances are 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 500 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.

If serious consequences are caused, criminal responsibility shall be investigated.