"Frontier" first instance sentenced to 6 years and 6 months

Xinhuanet Kunming, July 23 (Reporter Wang Yan) On the morning of the 23rd, the Wuhua District People's Court of Kunming held a public pronouncement on the illegal operation of Dong Rubin (the name "border people"), provocation and trouble and Hou Peng's illegal operation, Business crime, crime provocation trouble Dong Rubin decided to imprisonment for 6 years and 6 months and fined 350,000 yuan. Hou Peng was sentenced to three years in prison and suspended for three years for a crime of illegal business and fined 50,000 yuan.

After investigation, Wuhua District Court in Kunming identified that from March 2011 to May 2013, the defendants Dong Rubin and Hou Peng provided the information network paid service to others through making false information and postings. Among them, the defendant Dong Rubin organized four cases involved in the crime, involving 345,000 yuan; the defendant Hou Peng involved in committing three cases, involving a total amount of 255,000 yuan. In addition, the defendant Dong Rubin sought to raise awareness. During October 2011 to March 2013, false information on the murder of the "10.5" Mekong Chinese crew was posted on online platforms such as Sina, Tencent, QQ Space and Tianya Community Spreading and distorting facts has stirred up trouble and caused a large number of netizens to crowd, reprint and spread.

Kunming Wuhua District Court held that defendants Dong Rubin and Hou Peng, in violation of state regulations, sought to profit by publishing false information and disturbing the market order. Their acts constituted crimes of illegal operation and were particularly serious. In the joint crime, Dong Rubin is the main culprit, Hou Peng is an accomplice and has voluntarily surrendered. After the murder of the crew of the Mekong River in China, the defendant, Dong Rubin, fabricated fake information to disperse on the Internet, maliciously attacked, vilified the image of state organs and government, severely disrupted public order, and caused extremely bad social effects. His act also constituted a crime of provoking trouble. Kunming Wuhua Procuratorate accused the two defendants of the crime is clear, the charges were established. The defendants Dong Rubin, Hou Peng and their defenders put forward the defense opinions on the illegal investigation and control procedures in this case without any factual or legal evidence, and the defense opinions on the innocence of defendants can not be established.

Kunming Wuhua District Court in accordance with the "People's Republic of China Criminal Law" and the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate "on the use of information networks to implement defamation and other criminal law applicable to the interpretation of a number of issues," according to the defendant Dong Rubin, Hou Peng criminal Of the facts, nature, plot, the extent of harm to society and his performance of confession of guilty plea, sentenced Dong Rubin to six years in prison for illegal business and fined RMB 350,000, sentenced him to one year imprisonment for provocation, and decided to execute Imprisonment for 6 years and 6 months and a fine of 350,000 yuan; Hou Peng was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment, 3 years imprisonment and 50,000 yuan fine. The defendants Dong Rubin and Hou Peng continued to recover the illegal gains, and the tools for committing crimes were forfeited according to law.

After the verdict, Dong Ruobin, the defendant, verbally stated that he would appeal. The defendant Hou Peng service sentence, oral said no appeal.