How is the crime of disrupting public security handled?

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Disrupting public security is the act of inciting, instigating, or gathering large crowds with the aim of disrupting public order and security, resisting law enforcement officers, obstructing the operation of state agencies or social organizations, and opposing the people's government.

ButArticle 118 of the 2015 Penal Code, as amended and supplemented in 2017, stipulates the crime of disrupting security as follows:

1. Any person who, with the aim of opposing the people's government, incites, lures, or gathers many people to disrupt security, resist law enforcement officers, or obstruct the activities of agencies or organizations, unless falling under the cases stipulated in Article 112 of this Code, shall be sentenced to imprisonment from 5 to 15 years.

2. Other accomplices shall be sentenced to imprisonment from 2 to 7 years.

3. Anyone who prepares to commit this crime shall be sentenced to imprisonment from 6 months to 3 years.

According to Article 28Penal Code of 2015Regulations concerning crimes for which the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution does not apply. Specifically, these include:

– Crimes against national security as stipulated in Chapter XIII ofThe Penal Code of 2015.

– Crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and war crimes as defined in Chapter XXVI ofThe Penal Code of 2015.

– The crime of embezzlement of property falls under the cases stipulated in Clauses 3 and 4 of Article 353 ofThe Penal Code of 2015;The crime of accepting bribes falls under the circumstances stipulated in Clauses 3 and 4 of Article 354.The Penal Code of 2015.

Therefore, the crime of disrupting security is a crime against national security and thus the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution does not apply.