Article 25 of the "Administrative Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China": Anyone who commits any of the following acts shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may be fined not more than five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are relatively minor, the person shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than 500 yuan:
(1) Spreading rumors, falsely reporting dangers, epidemics, police information, or deliberately disrupting public order in other ways.
(2) Disrupting public order by releasing false explosive, toxic, radioactive, corrosive substances or infectious disease pathogens and other dangerous substances.
(3) Threatening to set fire, explode or release dangerous substances to disrupt public order.
Extended information:
Article 1 of the "Interpretations of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases Using Information Networks to Commit Defamation": Under the following circumstances: 1, should be deemed as "fabricating facts to slander others" as stipulated in the first paragraph of Article 246 of the Criminal Law:
(1) Fabricating facts that harm the reputation of others and disseminating them on the information network, or Organize and direct personnel to spread on information networks.
(2) Tampering the original information content involving others on the information network into facts that harm the reputation of others, and disseminating it on the information network, or organizing or instructing people to disseminate it on the information network.
Whoever knowingly disseminates fabricated facts that harm the reputation of others on the information network and the circumstances are egregious will be deemed to have "fabricated facts to slander others."
Article 2: Anyone who uses information networks to defame others and meets any of the following circumstances shall be deemed to be a "serious circumstance" as stipulated in the first paragraph of Article 246 of the Criminal Law:
< p>(1) The same defamatory information is actually clicked or viewed more than 5,000 times, or forwarded more than 500 times.(2) Causing serious consequences such as mental disorder, self-mutilation, or suicide to the victim or his close relatives.
(3) Those who have received administrative punishment for defamation within two years and also defamed others.
(4) Other serious circumstances.