Lawyer defending Lao Rongzhi threatened; expressing emotions must also abide by laws and regulations.

Compiled from The Paper
 
On July 5, Wu Danhong, the defense lawyer for Lao Rongzhi, stated that the man who had previously called to threaten to kill his entire family had been administratively detained by the police for five days. On that day, he received the administrative penalty decision letter mailed by the Chaoyang Branch of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau.

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Case review
On June 26, Attorney Zhao Defang, assistant to Wu Danhong, received a death threat over the phone. The caller said that if Lao Rongzhi's case was sent back for retrial or the sentence was commuted, he would kill Wu Danhong's entire family. That same day, Zhao Defang reported the matter to the Changying Police Station of the Chaoyang Branch of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, and the police have accepted the case.
 
The recording provided by Zhao Defang shows that a caller from a number registered in Yingtan, Jiangxi, after confirming Zhao Defang's identity, said, “Don't worry about who I am. Let me tell you, if Lao Rongzhi's case is sent back for retrial or her sentence is commuted, I will kill Wu Danhong's daughter and everyone in his family. Pass this message on to him.”
 
The Administrative Penalty Decision issued by the Chaoyang Branch of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau shows that the offender, Ruan Moumou, born in 1987, resides in Jinxi County, Jiangxi Province. At around 15:00 on June 26, Ruan Moumou threatened another person's personal safety by making phone calls in Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province. In accordance with Article 42, Item 1 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Penalties for Administration of Public Security, it is decided to impose a five-day administrative detention. The manner and period of execution are as follows: administrative detention shall be executed at the Chaoyang District Detention Center from July 2, 2023 to July 7, 2023.
 
The [1] The People's Republic of China Public Security Administration Punishments Law
[6] Article 42
Whoever commits any of the following acts shall be detained for not more than 5 days or be fined not more than 500 yuan; and if the circumstances are relatively serious, shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days, and may concurrently be fined not more than 500 yuan: (1) writing letters of intimidation or threatening the personal safety of another person by other means; (2) publicly insulting another person or fabricating facts to slander another person; (3) fabricating facts to falsely accuse and frame another person, in an attempt to subject such person to criminal prosecution or public security administration punishment; (4) threatening, insulting, beating, or retaliating against a witness or a close relative of a witness; (5) repeatedly sending obscene, insulting, intimidating, or other information, thereby disrupting the normal life of another person; (6) peeping, secretly photographing, eavesdropping on, or disseminating another person’s privacy.
 
[1] The author's perspective
The Lao Rongzhi case has been a focus of public attention from the very beginning. Even if Lao Rongzhi is suspected of committing unforgivable crimes, this still requires awaiting the court's verdict. Even if it is a death sentence, the death penalty review procedure must be carried out. This shows that even criminals are granted corresponding rights by law. As ordinary people, we can have our own emotions and attitudes, but we must not extend them to affect the fair and impartial trial of the case, let alone threaten or intimidate others. Otherwise, the mistakes made by Lao Rongzhi are crimes, and the actions of those who threaten or intimidate are also crimes.