China targets drugs, gambling, online crimes
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-06-29 22:23 China will step up its
efforts to crack down on drugs, gambling and online crimes to create a clean
social environment, said Chief Justice Xiao Yang on Thursday.
At the national meeting of higher people's courts' presidents, the president
of the Supreme People's Court promised "severe punishments" for such crimes and
ordered local courts to play their role in criminal case judgement to maintain
social stability and harmony.
According to the 2006 China drug fighting report by the National Narcotics
Control Commission, drug use and trafficking have become the source of many
crimes as drug users scrape together money from drug trafficking, theft, robber
and prostitution.
In some regions unspecified in the report, 60 to 80 percent of robbery or
theft cases are committed by drug users.
In addition, about 1.3 million gamblers are checked by Chinese police every
year and the number is rising.
Criminals are also increasingly using the Internet to cheat people out of
money or threaten online security.
Xiao also said that local courts should clamp down on crimes jeopardizing
state security, violent crimes like murder, robbery and kidnapping, terrorism,
mafia crimes, corruption cases and crimes related to serious safety
accidents.
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