{"id":571,"date":"2024-04-09T03:40:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T03:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/topic\/cyber-crimes-criminal-liability-for-complicity-in-anothers-suicide\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T09:06:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T09:06:52","slug":"criminal-liability-for-complicity-in-anothers-suicide","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/topic\/cybercrime\/criminal-liability-for-complicity-in-anothers-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal liability for complicity in another&#8217;s suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hklii.hk\/eng\/hk\/legis\/ord\/212\/s33b.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Section 33B(1)<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hklii.hk\/eng\/hk\/legis\/ord\/212\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Offences Against the Person Ordinance<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hklii.hk\/eng\/hk\/legis\/ord\/212\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 212<\/a>), a person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the suicide of another, or an attempt by another to commit suicide, commits a crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCounselling\u201d means encouraging or persuading someone to do something. Whilst suicide is not a criminal offence in Hong Kong, it is an offence to encourage, persuade or help someone else to take their own life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Section 33B(1) of the Offences Against the Person Ordinance (Chapter 212), a person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the suicide of another, or an attempt by another to commit suicide, commits a crime. \u201cCounselling\u201d means encouraging or persuading someone to do something. Whilst suicide is not a criminal offence in Hong Kong, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","topic-type":[4],"class_list":["post-571","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-type-cybercrime"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic-type?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}