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
- JUNE 13, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
UNITED NATIONS. UN RIGHTS ENVOY ASKS CHINA TO AID NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES
China should stop repatriating North Koreans who flee their country and give them refugee status instead, Vitit Muntarbhorn, UN special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, said.
- JUNE 13, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. LONGYAN COURT GIVES DEATH SENTENCE FOR CHILD TRAFFICKING
in its initial trial, the Longyan City Intermediate People's Court, China, tried five suspects for involvement in the ‘26 February 2004’ child trafficking case, sentencing Lin Yudi, female, to death.
- JUNE 9, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FAMILY OF FIVE
the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court, China, handed a death sentence to Yang Hui, a man convicted of killing a family of five in Pudong.
- JUNE 9, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Dawei, 31, was executed in Xi’an, China...
Li Dawei, 31, was executed in Xi’an, China...
JUNE 9, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA. ISRAELIS BUY CHINESE DEATH ROW ORGANS FOR TRANSPLANTS
according to the Maariv daily China had become the number one destination for Israelis desperate for a life-saving transplant donor as Chinese authorities were selling organs taken from executed prisoners.
- JUNE 7, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR CHINESE INTERNET GAMER WHO KILLED RIVAL
Qiu Chengwei, an unemployed man from Shanghai, was handed a suspended death sentence for murdering a rival over the use of his "supreme weapon" during an online video game, state media reported
- JUNE 5, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. NINE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HEROIN TRAFFICKING
thirteen members of a well-organized drug gang in Baise, a city in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, were sentenced to death and to life imprisonment for trafficking 36 kilograms of heroin.
- JUNE 5, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. CHINA TO BAN TRADE IN HUMAN ORGANS, STATE MEDIA
China planned to issue regulations banning the trade in human organs, state media quoted ice Minister of Health Huang Jiefu as.
- JUNE 3, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. FORMER CITY POLICE HEAD SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH REPRIEVE
Yang Shihong, a former local Communist Party official, was convicted of corruption and sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve by the Huangshi Municipal Intermediate People's Court in central China's Hubei Province.
- JUNE 1, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. REPORTER MAY FACE DEATH PENALTY
China accused Ching Cheong, a Hong Kong-based reporter for Singapore's Straits Times newspaper, of spying for foreign agencies.
- JUNE 1, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. WORLD NEWSPAPER GROUP DEMANDS RELEASE OF JOURNALIST WHO RISKS DEATH PENALTY
the World Association of Newspapers demanded the immediate release of Hong Kong journalist Ching Cheong detained in China on spy charges.
- JUNE 1, 2005JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. CHINESE MAN IN FUKUOKA FAMILY MURDER APPEALS DEATH SENTENCE
Wei Wei, a Chinese national, appealed a district court ruling that sentenced him to death for his part in the murder in 2003 of a family of four in Fukuoka, Japan.