China News Service, Beijing, April 29 (Reporter Zhang Su) Taking the newly revised Minor Protection Law and the Law on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency into effect, the Supreme People's Procuratorate of China has decided that from May 2021 to December 2022 Special actions for legal supervision of the protection of minors were carried out by procuratorial organs across the country.
The reporter learned from the Supreme Procuratorate on the 29th that the prosecution will focus on the outstanding issues of minor protection discovered in case handling and work in this special operation to carry out supervision in accordance with the law.
For example, the implementation of special rectification and education measures for minors who have committed crimes; the implementation of the mandatory reporting system for cases of infringements of minors and the implementation of the system for inquiring about illegal and criminal information related to the industry in which minors are in close contact; and the implementation of the responsibilities of raising, education and protection of minors Implementation, rectification of hotels, guesthouses, hotels, commercial entertainment venues, bars, Internet cafes, etc.
Statistics show that from 2018 to 2020, prosecutors nationwide approved the arrest of 126,000 minors for crimes against minors and the prosecution of 171,000.
It is worth noting that in 2020, the prosecution supported 513 cases of prosecution and recommended the withdrawal of guardianship cases, which was 6.3 times that of 2019; 4,338 minors were rescued, an increase of 2.6 times year-on-year.
Shi Weizhong, Director of the Ninth Procuratorate of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, said that the Supreme People’s Procuratorate’s deployment of this special action is to promote the resolution of hotspots, difficulties and pain points in the protection of minors that are strongly expressed by the public, and to actively promote the establishment of a minor protection system and society. Comprehensive governance.
In response to promoting the resolution of online product and service providers infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of minors, Shi Weizhong said that the prosecution plans to increase the supervision of online platform companies in special actions to solve the mere formality of the "child and youth model"; Supervise online product and service providers to perform their obligations to prevent minors from becoming addicted to the Internet, resolve real-name authentication, age-appropriate reminders, products or services themselves must not intentionally contain designs that induce addiction, must not provide content that is not suitable for minors, and provide online access to users Time period and duration are restricted and other issues.
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