Is it illegal to detain someone else's ID card without permission?

It is illegal to seize someone else's ID card without permission. See the Law of the People's Republic of China on Resident Identity Cards for details.

The last item of article 15:

No organization or individual may detain a resident identity card. However, unless the public security organ executes the compulsory measures of residential surveillance in accordance with the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Sixteenth one of the following acts, given a warning by the public security organs, and impose a fine in 200 yuan, illegal income, confiscate the illegal income:

(a) using false certification materials to defraud the resident identity card;

(2) Renting, lending or transferring a resident identity card;

(3) illegally detaining another person's identity card.

Extended data:

Resident identity card is a legal document used to prove the identity of the holder, which is mostly issued to citizens by governments of various countries or regions. And as an important identification document for everyone.

People's Republic of China (PRC)'s ID card is written as "ID card" before 1984. 1On April 6th, 984, the State Council issued the Regulations on the Trial Implementation of Resident Identity Cards of the People's Republic of China, and began to issue the first generation of resident identity cards. On March 29th, 2004, Chinese mainland officially began to renew the second-generation resident ID card with built-in contactless IC card smart chip. The surface of the second-generation ID card adopts anti-counterfeiting film and printing anti-counterfeiting technology, and personal color photos can be used to read the information in the digital chip by machine.

20 17 17 On February 25th, the "WeChat ID Card Online Application Certificate" was issued in Nansha District, Guangzhou, providing national legal certificate-level identity authentication services for online and offline government services, hotel registration, logistics and distribution and other real-name registration system application scenarios.

References:

Law of the People's Republic of China on Resident Identity Cards-Peking University Legal Information Network