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China amends juvenile criminal law, offenders aged 12-14 years to face criminal punishment ANI | Updated: Feb 20, 2021 09:40 IST
Beijing [China], February 20 (ANI): China has amended its juvenile criminal law, which will take effect on March 1, thus bringing offenders as young as 12 under criminal punishment, reported The Straits Times.
The amended law stipulates that children aged 12 to 14 will now be held criminally liable for intentional homicide or intentional injury that leads to death or severe disability through extremely cruel means .
The amended law stipulates that children as young as 12 to 14 will now be held criminally liable for intentional homicide or intentional injury that leads to death or severe disability through extremely cruel means .
Tibetan Language Advocate Tashi Wangchuk Released After Five-Year Imprisonment
Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Feb 2, 2021
Five years after his arrest on charges of inciting separatism, Tashi Wangchuk, an advocate for Tibetan-language education, has been released from prison. He attempted to use legal avenues to reinstitute Tibetan-language education in his home county of Yushu, Qinghai Province, a majority-Tibetan area where fewer than 20 percent of people were believed to be literate in Tibetan. He was arrested two months after the release of a 2015 New York Times film documenting his efforts to file a lawsuit in Beijing, and held in pre-trial detention for two years, during which he was allegedly tortured. At his trial in 2018, he argued that “his idea was to use litigation to force local governments to stop ignoring Tibetan language education, and he was exercising his right as a citizen to criticize.” At The New York Times last Friday, Chris Buckley reported on
China s Civil Code prohibits all forms of organ trade: official shanghaisun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from shanghaisun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
2021-02-03 14:36:10 GMT2021-02-03 22:36:10(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) Trading in human cells, tissues, organs and remains in any form is prohibited by China s Civil Code, which took effect on the first day of 2021, an official with the National People s Congress (NPC), China s top legislature, said Wednesday.
Shi Hong, an official with the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee, stressed that trading in violation of this provision is invalid.
The country s laws and regulations, including the Criminal Law and human organ transplant regulations, have strictly stipulated the legal liabilities involving acts related to human organ trafficking, Shi added.