Regulation cracks down on hoax threats

Hoax threats of bombs, radiation and hijacking of aircraft will be treated as acts of terror by police and judicial authorities, according to a new regulation unveiled on Sunday.

The notice on legal references on handling violence, terrorist and extremist religious cases, jointly released by the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security, stipulates that making hoax threats of bombs, biochemical weapons, radiation, hijacking of aircraft or natural disasters will bring punishment for faking terrorist information.

Those who are aware of the threat being a hoax and who try to spread the information will also be punished, the regulation said.