“Martyrs cannot be defamed”! The case of “Spicy Pen” is included in the report of China’s top prosecutor

The Chinese National People’s Congress held a group meeting this morning to consider the report on the work of the Supreme People’s Court and the report on the work of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. China’s million-dollar netizen “hot pen small ball” last month posted an article mocking the military conflict on the Sino-Indian border last June, survived the PLA border guard chief Qi Fa Bao is because “the official is bigger”, people were arrested, prosecuted for “defamation of heroic officers and soldiers “and on CCTV after the apology, the case was written into the Supreme People’s Procuratorate work report.

It is reported that the Chinese Communist Party‘s People’s Liberation Army newspaper released images of military clashes on the Sino-Indian border in February this year, Chinese mainstream media and netizens overwhelmingly supported the four PLA men who “died for their country. But a former journalist with a microblogging account of more than 2 million followers, Qiu Ziming, posted an article mocking the PLA on Feb. 19 this year, sparking strong discontent from the Chinese Communist Party.

The biggest officer, the chief, survived, and the personality of this chief is definitely ‘flying general + rabbit + divine machine + blood road + strong luck'”, “The four who sacrificed their lives were for the rescue and merit, even the ones who went to rescue people were The sacrifice, then there must have not rescued ah, indicating that not only 4 people were killed in action”.

After the incident, Qiu Ziming was arrested for “defaming heroic officers and soldiers”, and last month CCTV even released footage of him confessing to the camera, apologizing on camera, saying, “My behavior like this can be said to be an act of conscience. I am also very self-reproachful, very remorseful.”

The Supreme People’s Procuratorate work report pointed out that the “hot pen small ball” malicious slander derogatory garrison heroes and soldiers, Jiangsu procuratorial authorities quickly intervened, according to the application of the amendments to the Criminal Law (XI) effective March 1 this year, for the first Time on suspicion of infringing on the reputation of heroes and martyrs, honor crimes approved for arrest, and with the support of military procuratorial authorities. The public interest litigation investigation was carried out with the support of military procuratorial organs.

The Chinese official media Xinhua reported that this case, which was handled under the new provisions of the law, was the “first case” in this field under the direct guidance of the Supreme Prosecutor. The case sent a strong signal to society that “martyrs are not to be defamed and the law is not to be provoked”.

In response to China’s “Criminal Law” amendment to retroactively prosecute crimes, Luo Chengzong, director of the Institute of Finance and Economics Law at Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, said in an interview with this newspaper today that the principles of criminal law in civilized countries are based on the legal norms in place at the time of the act. Some countries use “future laws to regulate the present behavior”, the people do not know where to comply with the legal boundaries, which has been a serious departure from the principles of criminal law in recent civilized countries.