(Adopted at the Fifth Session of the Fifth National People's Congress and Promulgated for Implementation by the Proclamation of the National People's Congress on December 4, 1982, as ammended at the First Session of the Seventh National People's Congress on April 12, 1988, and again at the First Session of the Seventh National People's Congress on March 29,1993.)
Article 28 The state maintains public order and suppresses treasonable and other counter-revolutionary activities; it penalizes criminal activities that endanger public security and disrupt the socialist economy as well as other criminal activities; and it punishes and reforms criminals.
America was repulsed by the shooting of four students at Kent State in 1970--but China's leaders slaughtered a thousand times that June 4, 1989--without a qualm.
Article 28 The state reserves the right to run tanks over unarmed students and beat, imprison, torture or execute anyone it deems "treasonous" or "criminal".