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DECISION OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS REGARDING THE PUNISHMENT OF CRIMES OF DESECRATING THE NATIONAL FLAG AND THE NATIONAL EMBLEM

Category  CRIMINAL LAW Organ of Promulgation  The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Status of Effect  Invalidated
Date of Promulgation  1990-06-28 Effective Date  1990-06-28 Date of Invalidation  1997-10-01

Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Regarding the Punishment of Crimes of Desecrating the National Flag and the National Emblem of the People's Republic of China



(Adopted at the 14th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh

National People's Congress on June 28, 1990, promulgated by Order No.29 of the
President of the People's Republic of China on June 28, 1990, and effective
as of June 28, 1990)(Editor's Note: This Decision has been invalidated by the
Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China revised at the Fifth Session of
the Eighth National People's Congress on March 14, 1997, and effective on
October 1, 1997)

    The 14th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National
People's Congress has decided to make supplementary provisions to the Criminal
Law: Whoever desecrates the National Flag or the National Emblem of the
People's Republic of China by publicly and wilfully burning, mutilating,
scrawling on, defiling, or trampling upon it shall be sentenced to fixed-term
imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public
surveillance or deprivation of political rights.


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