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
- MAY 14, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Baoji Intermediate People's Court in Shaanxi Province,...
The Baoji Intermediate People's Court in Shaanxi Province, China, sentenced Zhao Shouyi and Wang Rangke to death; Chen Baoping to 15 years imprisonment; and Zhang Haixue to 10 years imprisonment for murder, the Xibu Fazhi Bao newspaper reported
- MAY 13, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Major General Liu Guangzhi, commandant of China's Air...
Major General Liu Guangzhi, commandant of China's Air Force Command Academy, and another academy officer were sentenced to death on charges of spying for rival Taiwan
- MAY 13, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A court in central China's Henan province sentenced...
A court in central China's Henan province sentenced to death a woman convicted of buying and selling 13 children in a case linked to a nationwide network of baby trafficking, state press said
- MAY 13, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
the Meizhou Intermediate People's Court in Guangdong Province...
the Meizhou Intermediate People's Court in Guangdong Province...
- MAY 11, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai Railway Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Shanghai Railway Intermediate People's Court sentenced Zhou Wenling to death for a murder he committed in Nanjing in 1994
- MAY 10, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese court sentenced to death Lu Wangli for taking...
A Chinese court sentenced to death Lu Wangli for taking 26 million yuan (3
- MAY 10, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Chinese government systematically hunts down starving...
The Chinese government systematically hunts down starving North Korean refugees and sends them home to face detention in prison camps and possible execution, said Jean Ziegler, the United Nation's special rapporteur on the right to food
- MAY 10, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In its initial trial, the Kunming Intermediate People's...
In its initial trial, the Kunming Intermediate People's Court in Yunnan Province, China, sentenced Tan Minglin, to death and confiscation of all personal assets for smuggling, trafficking, and transporting drugs
- MAY 7, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On occasion of the visit to Italy of Chinese Prime...
On occasion of the visit to Italy of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jibao, the Italian government and the Italian economists seemed positively impressed solely by the figures associated with Chinese development
- MAY 5, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Canada's parliament launched a wide-ranging probe into...
Canada's parliament launched a wide-ranging probe into China's human rights record, with damning evidence of the treatment meted out to Tibetans by Beijing
- MAY 5, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese court in Yunnan province, Southwest China,...
A Chinese court in Yunnan province, Southwest China, pronounced null and void the death penalty handed down to Russian citizen Yelena Timchenko who was arrested at Kunming airport for carrying more than one kilogram of heroin in 2001
- APRIL 30, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Six were sentenced to death in Beijing for collectively...
Six were sentenced to death in Beijing for collectively killing six prostitutes after having sex with them