| Chinese procuratorates
crack down on crimes threatening state security (03/11/2003)
Chinese procuratorial organs in the last five years gave priority
to cracking down on crimes that posed a threat to state security,
said Han Zhubin, procurator- general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate,
Tuesday.
Delivering the Report on the Work of the Supreme People's Procuratorate
to the annual session of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC),
China's top legislature, Han said that in the five years, procuratorial
organs around the country approved the arrest of 3,402 criminal
suspects and prosecuted 3,550 on charge of crimes threatening state
security.
The procuratorial organs always give top priority to safeguarding
social stability and striking hard against major criminal activities
such as explosion, murder and arson conducted by terrorist forces,
ethnic separatist forces and religious extremist forces, said Han.
He said that the procuratorial organs approved the arrest of and
prosecuted a number of criminal suspects accused of organizing and
utilizing cult organizations like the Falun Gong cult to sabotage
the execution of laws, in strict accordance with relevant resolutions
of the NPC Standing Committee.
In the past five years, Chinese procuratorates approved the arrest
of a total of 3,601,375 criminal suspects and prosecuted 3, 666,142,
Han said.
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