중국 반테러주의 입법의 현황, 문제점과 향후과제

Abstract

In order to cope with the increasingly serious threats of terrorism, China has set up the new terrorism crimes in the Amendment to Criminal Law in 1997,while it has been effortless and the terrorism activities become even more rampant recently. In March 2014, there was a terrorist attack in the train station of Kunming(昆明) in Yunnan Province and 29 people died. And it is revealed that Islamic State in Iraq and Syria(ISIS) recruits terrorists in China as well. Terrorist crimes become breeding ground of the terrorist attacks and there is also a new trend that the area of terrorism activities are not only in XinJiang Uighur Autonomous Region but also occur in other regions of China. Chinese government has declared war on terrorism and take a hard line against terrorism Many countermeasures were continuously urged such as enact laws about terrorism Which specializes in counter-terrorism laws In China the first “counter-terrorism law(反恐怖主义法)” is promulgated on December 27, 2015, it became effective from January 1, 2016. This article aims at presenting legislative background that the legislative framework of the counter-terrorism law could be provided in China. It also presents the contents of the terrorism criminal and counter-terrorism law including the problems and future challenges.