Criminal lawyer, one of the attorneys in Nie Shubin case.

Suspected of the crime of stirring up trouble, criminal responsibility should be investigated according to law, which is separate from the previous crime of hooliganism. If you are sentenced to eight years in prison, it is already heavy enough.

Article 293 of the Criminal Law stipulates that anyone who commits one of the following acts of provoking troubles and disrupting social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or public surveillance:

(a) beating others at will, and the circumstances are bad;

(two) chasing, intercepting, insulting or intimidating others, and the circumstances are bad;

(three) extortion or arbitrary damage, occupation of public or private property, if the circumstances are serious;

(four) together in a public place. Causing serious disorder in public places.

Whoever gathers people for many times to commit the acts mentioned in the preceding paragraph and seriously undermines social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than 10 years and may also be fined.