2024/9/2 凌晨12:25 Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China concurrently, a fine, or shall be sentenced to a fine only. If the circumstances are especially serious, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 3 years but not more than 7 years, and concurrently, a fine. An entity committing a crime as prescribed in the preceding paragraph shall be fined, and the directly responsible persons in charge and other directly responsible persons shall be punished in accordance with the provisions in the preceding paragraph. Article 289 Whoever attends a gathering and “fights, smashes, or loots”, thereby causing injury to, disability of or the death of another person, shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions in Articles 234 and 232 of this Law. If public or private property is thereby destroyed or looted, the offender shall be ordered to return or make compensation for such property; and in the case of a ringleader, he shall also be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions in Article 263 of this Law. Article 290 In case of attending a gathering and disrupting public order, and the circumstances being so serious that work, production, business operation, teaching, scientific research or medical services cannot go on, if heavy losses are caused, the ringleaders shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 3 years but not more than 7 years; and other active participants shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 3 years, short-term custody, noncustodial correction or deprivation of political rights. In case of attending a gathering and assaulting a state organ, which causes the state organ to be unable to carry on its work and thereby results in heavy losses, the ringleaders shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 5 years but not more than 10 years; and other active participants shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 5 years, short-term custody, non-custodial correction, or deprivation of political rights. Whoever disrupts the working order of a state organ several times and fails to correct after being subjected to an administrative penalty, if the consequences are serious, shall be sentenced to fixedterm imprisonment of not more than 3 years, short-term custody, or non-custodial correction. Whoever repeatedly organizes or subsidizes others for unlawful gathering, thereby disrupting public order, if the circumstances are serious, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions in the preceding paragraph. Article 291 A ringleader who gathers a crowd that disrupt the order in a public place, such as a station, dock, civil airport, shopping mall, park or theater, a fair or an exhibition, or a stadium, block or otherwise disrupt traffic, or prevent an officer of public security administration from carrying out his duty or obstruct the officer in the performance of the duty in accordance with the law, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 5 years, short-term custody, or non-custodial correction. Article 291a Whoever releases fake explosive, poisonous or radioactive substances, fake pathogens of infectious diseases, or other fake substances, or fabricates such information as any explosive, biochemical or radiation exposure threat, or deliberately spreads information that may cause terror and which the offender knows is fabricated, thereby seriously disrupting public order, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 5 years, short-term custody, or non- en.npc.gov.cn.cdurl.cn/2020-12/26/c_921604_13.htm 10/40