Can I call the police if I am threatened?

If you are threatened or intimidated, you can call the police. Threatening is an illegal act, which is harmful to personal health and personality. When your rights are violated, you can choose to call the police to defend your rights. Informants have the right to report, accuse and report illegal and criminal acts to the public security organs by telephone, text messages, letters and door-to-door visits. Informants who come to report the case have the right to ask the public security organ to issue a report receipt. After the case is accepted, they have the right to ask for the receipt of the case. If the public security organs refuse to file a case, they have the right to ask for a notice of not filing a case.

For threats or intimidation, it is a violation of public security management punishment; If the circumstances are serious, it may be suspected of constituting the crime of provoking trouble.

According to Article 293 of the Criminal Law, anyone who commits one of the following acts of provoking troubles and disrupting social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or public surveillance:

(a) beating others at will, and the circumstances are bad;

(two) chasing, intercepting, insulting or intimidating others, and the circumstances are bad;

(three) extortion or arbitrary damage, occupation of public or private property, if the circumstances are serious;

(4) Causing serious disorder in public places.

Whoever gathers people for many times to commit the acts mentioned in the preceding paragraph and seriously undermines social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than 10 years and may also be fined.

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Article 293 of the Criminal Law

Whoever commits one of the following acts of provoking troubles and disrupting social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or public surveillance:

(a) beating others at will, and the circumstances are bad;

(two) chasing, intercepting, insulting or intimidating others, and the circumstances are bad;

(three) extortion or arbitrary damage, occupation of public or private property, if the circumstances are serious;

(4) Causing serious disorder in public places.

Whoever gathers people for many times to commit the acts mentioned in the preceding paragraph and seriously undermines social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than 10 years and may also be fined.

Article 42 of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law Article 42 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, 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.