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
- AUGUST 26, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhang Kunpeng, Xu Lei and Hu Guofeng, were executed...
Zhang Kunpeng, Xu Lei and Hu Guofeng, were executed in China on order of the Shanghai Higher People's Court
- AUGUST 25, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese woman facing possible execution for trafficking...
A Chinese woman facing possible execution for trafficking heroin was forced by police to have an abortion so she could be punished, Afp reported
- AUGUST 20, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Yijiang, a man convicted of killing and cutting...
Li Yijiang, a man convicted of killing and cutting off the genitals of six men he accused of gang-raping him, was executed
- AUGUST 19, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
three men, named Zu Feng, Sun Liang, and Sun Liansheng were executed
three men, named Zu Feng, Sun Liang, and Sun Liansheng were executed
- AUGUST 16, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A relics conservation official was sentenced to death...
A relics conservation official was sentenced to death in what state media described as the largest antiquities theft case since the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949
- AUGUST 12, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Four leaders of a crime gang in southern China were...
Four leaders of a crime gang in southern China were sentenced to death after being convicted of a series of offences including injuries and one killing
- AUGUST 10, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China should consider using the death penalty less...
China should consider using the death penalty less widely for corruption cases and abolishing it altogether for non-violent crimes, the semi-official China News service quoted legal experts as saying
- AUGUST 8, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
three leaders of a crime gang in southern China were sentenced to death
three leaders of a crime gang in southern China were sentenced to death
- AUGUST 3, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Eleven members of a mafia-style gang were sentenced...
Eleven members of a mafia-style gang were sentenced to death by a court in northwest China for crimes ranging from murder to robbery and gambling
- JULY 31, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhang Shuzhen, a woman who killed her gambler husband...
Zhang Shuzhen, a woman who killed her gambler husband before cooking and eating part of his body, was sentenced to death in China
- JULY 26, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty Uighurs aged 15 to 30 were convicted of "separatism"...
Twenty Uighurs aged 15 to 30 were convicted of "separatism" and "manufacture and storage of illegal weapons" by a court in China's Xinjiang region, and one of them had been executed, a court official as well as a Uighur organisation in exile said
- JULY 25, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Five people were sentenced to death in central China...
Five people were sentenced to death in central China for breaching oil pipelines more than 40 times to steal 450 tones of crude oil, the Xinhua News agency said