Defaming heroes to be civil offense
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LAWMAKERS have introduced amendments to China’s nascent civil code to make defaming “heroes and martyrs” of the Communist Party a civil offense.
China’s ongoing National People’s Congress, an annual meeting of some 3,000 delegates, is currently debating general rules for a civil code. The rules are expected to be passed by the time the event closes tomorrow.
Delegates made 126 changes to the most recent draft of the rules, released on March 8, which will serve as a preamble to the final code, expected in 2020.
One addition is the line: “Encroaching upon the name, portrait, reputation and honor of heroes and martyrs harms the public interest and should bear civil liability.”
The Party warned last year that a flood of online information is causing people to doubt the Party and urged that the Party do more to rebut “wrong” points of view.
“In modern life, some people use distorted facts and discrediting libel to maliciously slander and insult the honor and reputation of heroes and martyrs ... the social impact is very bad, rules should be imposed in response,” the NPC’s legal committee said on Sunday, according to a report by Xinhua news agency yesterday.
Lawmakers on Sunday had amended the previous draft so that the age at which a child is considered to be capable of civil actions is now 8 years old instead of 6 years old and moved to further protect “good Samaritans” who offer help in an emergency from liability if they accidentally cause harm.
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