China News Service, Beijing, December 22 (Huang Yuqin and Liang Xiaohui) The draft of the Criminal Law Amendment (Eleventh) was submitted to the 13th National People’s Congress Standing Committee for three deliberation on the 22nd. The draft plans to increase the number of minors who have reached the age of twelve and under the age of 14. Persons responsible for serious violent crimes.
Compared with the second review of the draft which limits the criminal liability of young minors to "causing death", the third review of the draft adds the situation of "seriously injured and severely disabled by special cruel means".
The draft stipulates that if a person who has reached the age of twelve but not the age of fourteen commits the crime of intentional homicide or intentional injury, causing death or using special cruel means to cause serious injury and cause severe disability, the circumstances are bad, and the prosecution shall be approved by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. Bear criminal responsibility.
In other words, young minors who have committed serious violent crimes without death may also be held liable.
At the same time, the draft also strengthens the punishment of crimes involving intellectual property rights.
Aiming at the crime of counterfeiting registered trademarks, the crime of selling counterfeit registered trademarks, the crime of illegally manufacturing and selling illegally manufactured registered trademark signs, the crime of copyright infringement, and the crime of selling infringing copies in the current criminal law, the third-review draft provisions of the draft are appropriately increased by five Penalties for crimes have been further strengthened.
Specifically, the current criminal law provides particularly serious sentences for the above-mentioned crimes, and most of them provide for three to seven years imprisonment and fines. The third draft of the draft revised the upper limit of the sentence and stipulated that the sentence should be three to ten years in prison. Fine.
In order to be in line with the revised copyright law and trademark law, the third-review draft of the draft also adds provisions on the crime of infringement of service trademarks, and improves the types of works in the crime of copyright infringement, infringement circumstances, and related rights of performers.
In addition, the draft further improves the relevant criminal threshold regulations, and amends the conviction and sentencing standards for the crime of selling counterfeit registered trademarks and selling infringing copies to the amount of illegal income plus the circumstances.
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