日前在十三届全国人大四次会议上发布的最高人民法院工作报告和最高人民检察院工作报告指出，过去一年全国各地法院和检察机关为疫情期间维持社会秩序、保障医护人员安全作出了巨大努力。

 

Chinese people experienced a sound living and working environment amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to the urgent and great efforts of courts and procuratorate organs across the country last year, according to the annual work reports of China's top court and top procuratorate.

 

The reports were submitted to the ongoing¹ fourth session of the 13th National People's Congress, the country's top legislative² body, for deliberation on Monday.

 

After the novel coronavirus hit the country, courts nationwide began intensifying³ their strength in maintaining order during pandemic control and maintaining social stability by issuing legal documents as well as resolving criminal cases and disputes involving the pandemic, Zhou Qiang, president of the Supreme⁴ People's Court, said while delivering the top court's work report to national legislators.

 

A total of 6,443 people in 5,474 criminal cases were penalized⁵ for pandemic-related crimes in 2020, including Ma Jianguo, who was executed for killing⁶ workers engaged in epidemic⁷ control, the report said.

 

The execution was carried out by a court in Yunnan province in July after the top court approved the death penalty of Ma for killing two epidemic control workers in February.

 

The report also said courts nationwide issued 34 influential⁸ cases involving the pandemic last year, giving tougher punishments to those cheating medical workers who aided hard-hit Hubei province, using fake charity institutions to get donations or creating or spreading pandemic-related rumors⁹.

 

Yu Maoyu, deputy head of the top court's general office, said one of the key phrases for Chinese courts was "protecting rights of medical workers".

 

"In 2020, courts took many measures to guarantee medical security and safeguard medical order," Yu said. "In order to protect those who braved the pandemic, we harshly punished people who intentionally¹⁰ tore off medical workers' preventive clothing."

 

Other behaviors also were punished more heavily, including price gouging¹¹ and people who lied about their histories when they returned from abroad and thereby¹² caused many others to be quarantined, the report said.

 

While keeping public order by strengthening the fight against crime, "our courts helped enterprises in the resumption of activity and production, promoting development and ensuring the vitality¹³ of market entities¹⁴", Zhou said.

 

The work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, which was delivered by Zhang Jun, SPP procurator-general, shows that prosecutors¹⁵ across the country also made great efforts in fighting COVID-19, with 11,000 people charged and 7,227 people approved for arrest for pandemic-related crimes.

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