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
- OCTOBER 19, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A woman convicted in the largest case of drug trafficking...
A woman convicted in the largest case of drug trafficking in China's capital in more than 50 years was executed, Chinanews
- OCTOBER 16, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
"There remains a conviction that only a penalty as...
"There remains a conviction that only a penalty as absolute as death is just for serious crime
- OCTOBER 15, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
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- OCTOBER 14, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Two Nepalese drug traffickers were sentenced to death...
Two Nepalese drug traffickers were sentenced to death by a criminal tribunal in the Tibetan capital Lhasa
- OCTOBER 14, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three criminals who kidnapped famous Chinese actor...
Three criminals who kidnapped famous Chinese actor Wu Ruofu and another three people, were sentenced to death by the Beijing No 2 Intermediate People's Court
- OCTOBER 13, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China should reform its penal code to observe the international...
China should reform its penal code to observe the international agreements it had undersigned, the deputy president of the People's Supreme Court Huang Songyu said
- OCTOBER 12, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Two Chinese drug dealers were executed by lethal injection...
Two Chinese drug dealers were executed by lethal injection in Nanjing, the capital of east China's Jiangsu province
- OCTOBER 10, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court in south...
The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court in south China's Guangdong Province sentenced to death Zhang Qisheng and sentenced nine others to terms of up to life imprisonment for trafficking 12
- OCTOBER 6, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese court sentenced two people to death and another...
A Chinese court sentenced two people to death and another to life in jail after they were convicted of smuggling the pelts of nearly 1,400 endangered animals into Tibet
- OCTOBER 2, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China cracked a 36-member gang that kidnapped and sold...
China cracked a 36-member gang that kidnapped and sold 96 women and children over a dozen years, sentencing two to death and handing the others at least two years' jail time
- OCTOBER 1, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A police officer in central China's Henan province...
A police officer in central China's Henan province was sentenced to death for robbing, raping and murdering six women
- OCTOBER 1, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Several hundred Chinese schoolchildren watched public...
Several hundred Chinese schoolchildren watched public sentencings for criminals who were later executed, Amnesty International said