
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 18, 1990                   TAG: 9007180508
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: BEIJING                                LENGTH: Short

PORNOGRAPHERS FACE DEATH PENALTY IN CHINA

The country's highest court has set severe penalties, including death, for people who deal in pornographic materials.

Items considered pornographic include audio and video tapes, records, books and magazines, playing cards and photographs and pictures describing sexual behavior or directly depicting licentious images, official media reported.

-Associated Press

by CNB