Jagdaqi District People’s Court

“ Whoever fabricates false information and disseminates or organises or directs others to disseminate on the information network, or disseminates or organises or directs others to disseminate such information on the information network with full knowledge of its falsity, if creates disturbances and causes serious disorder in a public place, shall be convicted and punished for the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble in accordance with Item 4 of Paragraph 1 of Article 293 of the Criminal Law. ”

“ The Defendant has been perennially using circumvention tools to bypass the internet blockade and browse the overseas website Twitter. Starting in 2014, the Defendant began to follow some accounts of anti-China forces on Twitter and regularly viewed videos and essays posted by anti-China forces overseas that attacked and vilified pertinent systems and policies of the state, and therefore has developed a mindset of animosity towards the current social system of our country. ”

“ Whoever musters others to repeatedly commit any act mentioned in the preceding paragraph, thus seriously undermining social order, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years and may be concurrently fined. ”