The crime of harboring and sheltering refers to providing hiding places and property for people who know they are criminals, helping them escape or falsely proving that they are harboring, which is a behavioral crime. At present, there is no specific standard for filing a case.
Article 14 of the Criminal Law stipulates that knowing that one's actions will have harmful consequences to society and hoping or letting such consequences happen is a deliberate crime and constitutes a crime.
Whoever intentionally commits a crime shall bear criminal responsibility.
Article 310 of the Criminal Law stipulates that anyone who knowingly provides help for criminals to escape or perjury to cover up shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years.
Whoever commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph and conspires in advance shall be punished as an accomplice.
Legal objectivity:
Criminal law of the people's Republic of China
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Whoever knowingly provides a criminal with a hiding place or property, helps him escape or perjures, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance;
If the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years. Whoever commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph and conspires in advance shall be punished as an accomplice.