China: Copy of the section of the Chinese Criminal Law on search summons, issued by the Public Security Bureau
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 April 1991 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | CHN8238 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, China: Copy of the section of the Chinese Criminal Law on search summons, issued by the Public Security Bureau, 1 April 1991, CHN8238, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6acc414.html [accessed 17 September 2023] |
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The copy of the Chinese Criminal Law currently available to the IRBDC does not have a section on search summons issued by the Public Security Bureau. However, attached please find a copy of the Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China which includes sections 3, 4 and 7 regarding search warrants and the role of the PSB in searching process.
Also attached please find an article on China's criminal justice system which refers to the process of prosecution of a Chinese dissident for whom no arrest warrant was issued despite the stipulation to that affect in the Criminal Procedure Law ("China's Changing Criminal Justice", September 1988, 267-268).
A copy of a summon issued by the PSB is currently unavailable to the IRBDC.
Attachment
Current History. September 1988. "China's Changing Criminal Justice System." ; 165-268, 271, 272.
"Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China." in The Criminal Law and the Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China. 1984. Beijing: Foreign Language Press; 115-167.