Chinese procuratorial organs in the last five years gave priority to cracking down on crimes that posed a threat to state security, said Han Zhubin, procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, Tuesday.
Delivering the Report on the Work of the Supreme People's Procuratorate to the annual session of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, Han said that in the five years, procuratorial organs around the country approved the arrest of 3,402 criminal suspects and prosecuted 3,550 on charge of crimes threatening state security.
The procuratorial organs always give top priority to safeguarding social stability and striking hard against major criminal activities such as explosion, murder and arson conducted by terrorist forces, ethnic separatist forces and religious extremist forces, said Han.
He said that the procuratorial organs approved the arrest of and prosecuted a number of criminal suspects accused of organizing and utilizing cult organizations like the Falun Gong cult to sabotage the execution of laws, in strict accordance with relevant resolutions of the NPC Standing Committee.
In the past five years, Chinese procuratorates approved the arrest of a total of 3,601,375 criminal suspects and prosecuted 3, 666,142, Han said.
March 11, 2003
Source: Xinhua News Agency
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