Legal provisions: "Chinese People's **** and State Criminal Law"
Article 290, paragraph 1 of the gathering of people to disrupt the social order of the crime of gathering people to disrupt the social order, the circumstances are serious, so that the work, production, business and teaching, scientific research, medical treatment can not be carried out, and caused serious damage, the primary elements, shall be sentenced to three years or more, seven years or less of fixed-term imprisonment; other active participation, shall be sentenced to three years or less, fixed-term imprisonment, detention, control or deprivation of political rights. shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years and not more than seven years; for other active participants, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, detention, control or deprivation of political rights.