China
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- communist state
- CONSTITUTION
- December 4, 1982, amended several times, last in 2004.
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on civil law, of Soviet derivation and derived from the legal principles of the continental civil code
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, National People's Congress (Quanguo Renmin Daibiao Dahui)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme People's Court, judges appointed by the National People's Congress; local people's courts and special people's courts
RELIGIONS
Buddhists 18.2%, Christians 5.1%, Muslims 1.8%, others 0.7%, unspecified 52.2%
From the country
APRIL 26, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA. TRADE OFFICIAL EXECUTED FOR CORRUPTION
a trade official convicted of corruption in northern China's Hebei province was executed.
- APRIL 24, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. VAULT GUARD GETS DEATH SENTENCE
a Hunan Province court, China, sentenced former vault guard Hu Guiding to death for stealing more than 5.5 million yuan (US$ 686,042) from his employer in Pingjiang County.
APRIL 19, 2006United KingdomDEATH PENALTYCHINA. CHINA “SELLING PRISONERS' ORGANS”, BRITISH TRANSPLANTATION SOCIETY
top British transplant surgeons accused China of harvesting the organs of thousands of executed prisoners a year to sell for transplants.
- APRIL 14, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN EXECUTED FOR 7 MURDERS
a man was executed in Guang'an, Sichuan Province, for killing seven people during a series of robberies at company vaults, banks and a jewelry shop after a jail break.
- APRIL 11, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ROBBERY WITH MURDER
the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Zheng Yanpeng to death for murder and robbery.
- APRIL 10, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. RANDOM TRANSPLANT OF ORGANS FROM CRIMINALS "UNTRUE"
a senior Chinese health official described a report about China's random transplant of organs from executed criminals as "untrue" and a "malicious slander".
- APRIL 6, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. PROPAGANDA BOSS, WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN GET SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCES
China handed a former city propaganda chief and an influential businessman suspended death sentences, state media said.
- APRIL 6, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER EXECUTED
Fu Zhongtao, a man convicted of hitting and dragging a nine-year-old girl to her death with a luxury car, was executed by lethal injection in northeast China.
APRIL 6, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA. FALUN GONG BODIES CARVED UP FOR ORGANS
the Falun Dafa Information Center revealed that, in response to public exposure, officials in China had begun a massive, deadly campaign to destroy evidence of concentration camps holding practitioners of Falun Gong; at the camps, the Falun Gong were kill
- APRIL 3, 2006AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
AUSTRALIA. GOVT LOBBIES CHINESE PREMIER ON DEATH PENALTY
the Australian Federal Government raised with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao the case of a man facing the death penalty in China over the murder of a Canberra university student.
APRIL 3, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA. SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW DEATH SENTENCES ISSUED BY LOWER COURTS
responding to intense public criticism over the high rate of executions, China's apex court established three new criminal tribunals to review certain types of death sentence passed by provincial courts.
MARCH 31, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA. PIPELINE OIL THIEVES FACE DEATH PENALTY
Chinese police vowed to clamp down on pipeline oil theft, even threatening to impose the death penalty. According to police oil theft cost the industry more than 1bn yuan ($124.6m, £71.8m) and led to 2,877 arrests.