Porn-makers to be severely punished in China

Chinese authorities stepped up their efforts in struggle against domestic porn-makers. The latest legal interpretations threaten those involved in the profit-oriented production and dissemination of pornographic materials through the Internet, mobile communication and phone-sex services to criminal punishment as serious as life-term prison sentences.





The interpretations were jointly issued yesterday by China's Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate on the application of law in handling criminal cases concerning the production, duplication, publication, sales and dissemination of electronic pornographic materials through the Internet, mobile communication terminals and phone-sex services. The move is “to maintain the normal order of the public network and communications and the legal rights and interests of the public”, Chinese authorities say.

Effective from Monday, September 06, 2004, new interpretations threaten potential offenders with different punishments, starting from living under compulsory surveillance, detainment, taking into custody by the police, to various terms of imprisonment and life imprisonment, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reports.

And it seems that it is not going to be difficult for Chinese adult web-masters to get a life-term prison sentence since even 250,000 impressions received by a web-site in question will be enough to be considered as “very severe” case with all due legal consequences for those running the site.

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