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causing serious consequences; (3) Those who smuggle and transport illegal emigrants or forge papers for entry to the border areas; (4) Those who illegally board vehicles and vessels and damage state property, or sabotage communications facilities and jeopardize communications safety; (5) Those who rob or steal from vehicles, vessels or other means of communications for the purpose of illegal emigration; (6) Those who commit acts of violence and beat up border defence personnel on duty and those masses who assist in stopping illegal emigrants; (7) Those who frame and take revenge on the activists and their families who oppose illegal emigration; (8) Those who illegally build and sell vessels to illegal emigrants or provide them with other means of transport; (9) Those who organize the storming of detention centres to free or rescue the detained illegal emigrants; (10) Those state staff and workers who make use of their powers to take bribes, bend the law and support and protect others in carrying out illegal emigration; (11) Those who carry secret documents and guns while sneaking out of the country; (12) Those who illegally emigrate for counter-revolutionary aims.
Article 6 People who commit the following acts should be punished by education through labour, forced labour or administrative detention according to the seriousness of the case: (1) Those who repeatedly try to flee from the country despite repeated education; (2) Those who alter papers for the purpose of illegal emigration; (3) Those who forcibly flee from the country by train or boat without heeding advice; (4) Those who storm the border defences and force their way across the border; (5) Those who resist detention or repatriation, unreasonably create trouble and disrupt order in the detention centres; (6) Those involved in serious cases of hiding illegal emigrants; (7) Those involved in less serious cases under Article 5 above.
Article 7 All the money and goods obtained through smuggling, transporting or harbouring illegal emigrants, making and selling means of transport for illegal emigration, or forging and selling border defence papers must be confiscated according to law, and fines can also be imposed at discretion. Funds collected for carrying out illegal emigration in gangs and the means of transport, lethal weapons, and contraband of illegal emigrants must all be confiscated. Those people who steal vehicles, vessels or other means of trans- port for illegal emigration purposes or damage state, collective or individual property through illegal emigration must compensate for the losses.
Article 8 Public security organs at and above county level will approve punish- ments of forced labour, administrative detention, and confiscation of ill-gotten gains, and conduct investigation of responsibility for compensating economic losses. Those sent to do education through labour will be dealt with in accordance with the State Council's supplementary regulation on education through labour. Those whose criminal respons- ibility is being investigated will be dealt with according to legal procedures.
Article 9 Everyone has the responsibility to stop illegal emigration. We must commend and protect the cadres and masses who actively struggle against illegal emigrants and reward those who render meritorious service.
Article 10 These regulations are valid from the day of promulgation.
'People's Daily' on Redressed Injustices in Tibet
'People's Daily' 25 Dec 79
Text of NCNA report:
"Leading comrades of Tibet seriously deal with letters and visits from the masses - reversing a number of wrong verdicts":
The Party and government leaders of Tibet autonomous region have seriously dealt with letters and visits from the masses to mobilize the enthusiasm of the masses for building socialism and strengthening and developing the excellent situation of stability and unity.