Editing Defamation (section)

===China===
====Civil====
Based on text from [[s:Civil Code of the People's Republic of China/Book Four|Wikisource]]:{{better source needed |date=August 2023 |reason=Needs official sources (not just self-referential Wikimedia sources).}} [[Civil Code of the People's Republic of China]], "Book Four" ("Personality Rights").

"Chapter I" ("General rules"):
* Personality rights: reputation, honour, privacy, dignity (Art. 990)
* Protection of personality rights (Arts. 991{{ndash}}993)
* Personality rights of the deceased (Art. 994)
* Liability for infringement; and requests to stop, restore reputation, offer apology (Arts. 995{{ndash}}1000)

"Chapter V" ("Rights to Reputation and Rights to Honor"):
* Right to reputation, protection from defamation and insults (Art. 1024)
** Reputation includes moral character, prestige, talent, credit
* Liability for fact fabrication, distortion, lack of verification, misrepresentation, insults (Art. 1025)
* Verification considerations, source credibility, controversial information, timeliness, [[public-order crime|public order]] and [[public morality|morals]] (Art. 1026)
* Depictions of real people and events, in literary and artistic works (Art. 1027)
* Right to request correction or deletion (Art. 1028)
* Right to request correction or deletion, for incorrect [[credit history|credit reports]] (Arts. 1029, 1030)
* Honorary titles and awards: protection, recording, correction (Art. 1031)

====Criminal====
Article 246 of the [[Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China]] ([[s:zh:中华人民共和国刑法|中华人民共和国刑法]]) makes serious defamation punishable by fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention upon complaint, unless it is against the government.<ref>[http://www.cecc.gov/pages/newLaws/criminalLawENG.php Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920234620/https://www.cecc.gov/resources/legal-provisions/criminal-law-of-the-peoples-republic-of-china |date=20 September 2021}}, Congressional-Executive Commission on China.</ref>