China: death penalty for advocating ‘Taiwan independence’ - eviltoast
  • Slayan@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago
    1. For those who commit the acts specified in Article 2 of this Opinion, the ringleaders or those who commit serious crimes shall be sentenced to life imprisonment or fixed-term imprisonment of ten years or above.

    Among them, those who cause particularly serious harm to the state and the people and whose circumstances are particularly bad may be sentenced to death

    ; those who actively participate shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years; those who participate in other activities shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, control or deprivation of political rights.

    Tbf it’s not super clear i had to read the whole thing 3 time. Sorry about the brillant people calling you a tankie, they prob don’t even know what it mean…

    • halyk.the.red@lemmy.ml
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      Yeah, it’s legal language that’s been translated, so I can’t expect vernacular clarity.

      I don’t get the tankie comments, either. My original post was about the article being biased towards sensationalism. It seems lots of people have strong opinions and feel the need to lash out.