Stiffer drunk driving laws seen
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August 24, 2010, Tuesday
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DRUNK driving and street racing have been written into a draft amendment to China's Criminal Law as crimes, in an effort to make the roads safer.
The draft amendment was submitted yesterday to China's top legislature for its first reading.
Convicted drunk drivers may face forced labor while in detention for one to six months and be fined, even if their actions cause no accident, according to the draft law. Currently, drunk drivers are detained for 15 days, according to the Law on Road Traffic Safety.
Organ selling
The crime of buying and selling human organs has also been written into a draft amendment to China's Criminal Law to intensify the crackdown against the illegal trade in the country.
The draft amendment states that those involved in illegal trading of human organs - including organizing, coercing and tricking others into donating, and taking human organs from the deceased without consent - should be subject to a five-year sentence or longer, plus fines and confiscation of property.
Unpaid wages
Employers who default on wage payments could face criminal charges under the draft amendment to the Criminal Law.
The proposed amendment aims to protect workers' rights to payment following frequent reports of workers being beaten up when asking their employers for unpaid salaries. It would impose penalties of up to seven years in prison plus fines on those who could afford to pay, but who failed to pay the workers regardless.
Forced labor
Those convicted of forcing others to labor may face penalties of up to seven years of imprisonment instead of only three years, as China's top legislature mulls cracking down on the crime.
Several forced labor scandals have come to the light in China in recent years.
In May 2009, police in eastern Anhui Province arrested 10 for allegedly beating and forcing 32 mentally-handicapped people to work in brick kilns in slave-like conditions.
In 2007, a brick-kiln boss in northern China's Shanxi Province was found to have forced 1,340 people to labor, 367 of whom were mentally handicapped.
The draft amendment was submitted yesterday to China's top legislature for its first reading.
Convicted drunk drivers may face forced labor while in detention for one to six months and be fined, even if their actions cause no accident, according to the draft law. Currently, drunk drivers are detained for 15 days, according to the Law on Road Traffic Safety.
Organ selling
The crime of buying and selling human organs has also been written into a draft amendment to China's Criminal Law to intensify the crackdown against the illegal trade in the country.
The draft amendment states that those involved in illegal trading of human organs - including organizing, coercing and tricking others into donating, and taking human organs from the deceased without consent - should be subject to a five-year sentence or longer, plus fines and confiscation of property.
Unpaid wages
Employers who default on wage payments could face criminal charges under the draft amendment to the Criminal Law.
The proposed amendment aims to protect workers' rights to payment following frequent reports of workers being beaten up when asking their employers for unpaid salaries. It would impose penalties of up to seven years in prison plus fines on those who could afford to pay, but who failed to pay the workers regardless.
Forced labor
Those convicted of forcing others to labor may face penalties of up to seven years of imprisonment instead of only three years, as China's top legislature mulls cracking down on the crime.
Several forced labor scandals have come to the light in China in recent years.
In May 2009, police in eastern Anhui Province arrested 10 for allegedly beating and forcing 32 mentally-handicapped people to work in brick kilns in slave-like conditions.
In 2007, a brick-kiln boss in northern China's Shanxi Province was found to have forced 1,340 people to labor, 367 of whom were mentally handicapped.
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