criminal law
Article 105 Whoever incites to subvert state power or overthrow the socialist system by spreading rumors, slandering or other means shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights; The ringleaders or those who commit serious crimes shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years.
Article 181 Whoever fabricates and disseminates false information that affects securities and futures trading and disrupts the securities and futures trading market, thus causing serious consequences, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan.
Article 246 Whoever publicly insults others by violence or other means or fabricates facts to slander others, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights.
Article 291 Whoever throws false explosive, toxic, radioactive or infectious disease pathogens, or fabricates terrorist information such as explosion threat, biochemical threat or radiation threat, or intentionally spreads it knowing that it is fabricated terrorist information, thus seriously disrupting social order, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or public surveillance; If serious consequences are caused, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years.
Whoever fabricates a false danger, epidemic situation, disaster situation or warning situation and spreads it on the information network or other media, or knowingly spreads it on the information network or other media, thus seriously disrupting social order, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance; If serious consequences are caused, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years.
Public security administration punishment law
Article 25 Whoever commits one of the following acts shall be detained for more than 5 days and less than 0 days/kloc-0, and may also be fined up to 500 yuan; If the circumstances are minor, they shall be detained for less than 5 days or fined for less than 500 yuan:
(a) spreading rumors, lying about dangerous situations, epidemic situations, police situations or deliberately disturbing public order by other means;
(2) throwing false explosive, toxic, radioactive and corrosive substances or infectious disease pathogens to disturb public order;
(3) Threatening to set fire, explode or throw dangerous substances to disturb public order.
Tort liability law
Article 2 Whoever infringes upon civil rights and interests shall bear tort liability in accordance with this Law.
The civil rights and interests mentioned in this Law include personal rights and property rights such as the right to life, health, name, reputation, honor, portrait, privacy, marital autonomy, guardianship, ownership, usufructuary right, security right, copyright, patent right, trademark exclusive right, discovery right, stock right and inheritance right.
general provisions of civil law
Article 110 A natural person enjoys the right to life, body, health, name, portrait, reputation, honor, privacy and marital autonomy.
Legal persons and unincorporated organizations enjoy the right of name, reputation and honor.
Article 120 Where the civil rights and interests are infringed, the infringed has the right to request the infringer to bear the tort liability.