Legal basis: Article 291 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) releases false explosive, toxic, radioactive, infectious disease pathogens and other substances, or fabricates terrorist information such as explosion threat, biochemical threat, radiation threat, or intentionally spreads it knowing that it is fabricated terrorist information, which seriously disrupts social order, and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or public surveillance; If serious consequences are caused, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years.
Article 80 of the Anti-Terrorism Law: Anyone who participates in one of the following activities, if the circumstances are minor and do not constitute a crime, shall be detained by the public security organ for not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days, and may also be fined not more than 10,000 yuan: (1) Advocating terrorism and extremism or inciting terrorism and extremism; (2) Making, disseminating or illegally possessing articles that promote terrorism and extremism; (3) Forcing others to wear clothes and signs that promote terrorism and extremism in public places; (4) Providing information, funds, materials, services, technologies, places and other support, assistance and convenience for propagating terrorism and extremism or carrying out terrorist and extremist activities.