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
- DECEMBER 7, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. CHINA TO OPEN DEATH PENALTY APPEALS PROCESS TO PUBLIC
China will make court proceedings on death penalty appeals open to the public next year in a bid to safeguard human rights, the government said.
- DECEMBER 2, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. CHINA TO 'TIDY UP' TRADE IN EXECUTED PRISONERS' ORGANS
China broke its silence to admit for the first time that the organs of executed prisoners were sold to foreigners for transplant.
- DECEMBER 2, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. CIVIL SERVANT SENTENCED TO DEATH ON GRAFT IN THREE GORGES RELOCATION
Du Jiang, a civil servant from Wushan County, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, was sentenced to death with a two years' reprieve for embezzling and misappropriating public funds set aside for relocation in the Three Gorges Reservoir.
- DECEMBER 1, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
detention of "underground" Catholic bishops, priests...
detention of "underground" Catholic bishops, priests...
- DECEMBER 1, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Religious activity grew not only among the five main religions...
Religious activity grew not only among the five main religions...
- NOVEMBER 24, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. CHILD TRAFFICKING RING CRACKED, MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
a Chinese court sentenced one person to death and jailed nine people for running a child-trafficking ring in the prosperous southern province of Guangdong.
- NOVEMBER 22, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. 2 EXECUTED FOR BEIJING MURDERS
two men were executed in Beijing for killing two women and seriously injuring a man at their homes during robberies.
- NOVEMBER 20, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. A RUSH TO EXECUTIONS
“China has a brutally efficient system of capital punishment. Sentences can be carried out within months of conviction, sometimes in mobile lethal-injection vans.
- NOVEMBER 18, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. FORMER PUBLICITY OFFICIAL GETS SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR TAKING BRIBES
Gao Yong, former head of the Chinese Communist Party publicity department at the Chengdu municipal committee in southwest China's Sichuan Province, received a suspended death sentence by the Intermediate People's Court in Neijiang for taking bribes valued
- NOVEMBER 9, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SUES AFTER TORTURE, FALSE IMPRISONMENT
a Chinese man who was tortured into a false confession, jailed for nearly two years and wrongly sentenced to death was suing two local law courts for compensation.
- NOVEMBER 1, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ROBBERY AND MURDER
the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court, China, sentenced Lu Shaoping, a Hubei Province native, to death for robbery and murder. His accomplice Zeng Zhaoli was given a sentence of 14 years.
- NOVEMBER 1, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. TWO PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Wang Wenliang and Wang Zhiqiao to death for robbery and murder and gave accomplice Zhang Hongmei 15 years in prison.