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
- APRIL 30, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Huang Jianhu was sentenced to death in Taiyuan, in...
Huang Jianhu was sentenced to death in Taiyuan, in northern China's Shanxi province, for premeditated murder, rape and armed robbery after he was convicted of killing 12 prostitutes between 1997 and 2003
- APRIL 29, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Taichung High Court, China, sentenced ship captain...
The Taichung High Court, China, sentenced ship captain Wang Chung-hsing to death and a crewman Ke Ching-sung to life imprisonment for manslaughter after seven women from the Chinese mainland drowned after being thrown overboard
- APRIL 27, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Cracking down on rat poison that had been used for...
Cracking down on rat poison that had been used for mass murder, a court in China's Henan province issued a suspended death sentence to Fan Yuemin for making and selling the toxin
- APRIL 24, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Ma Jiajue was sentenced to death deprived of his political...
Ma Jiajue was sentenced to death deprived of his political rights for life by the Kunming Intermediate People's Court, in southwest China's Yunnan Province, after he was convicted of killing four fellow students
- APRIL 23, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Falun Gong members sued Chinese Commerce Minister Bo...
Falun Gong members sued Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai in US federal court for acts of genocide and torture which they said he carried out against them while a provincial governor
- APRIL 21, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
China voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 17, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Tibetan activists expressed dismay after the UN Human...
Tibetan activists expressed dismay after the UN Human Rights Commission threw out a US-sponsored resolution condemning China, saying the rights situation remained poor in Tibet
- APRIL 16, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Yu Zhendong, a man accused of the biggest embezzlement...
Yu Zhendong, a man accused of the biggest embezzlement in recent Chinese history, was extradited from Las Vegas to Beijing
- APRIL 15, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
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The Shanghai No
- APRIL 12, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A revised Criminal Procedure Law came into force in January 1997.
A revised Criminal Procedure Law came into force in January 1997.
- APRIL 10, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Taiwanese nationals Suo Guizhi and Chen Qingbiao were...
Taiwanese nationals Suo Guizhi and Chen Qingbiao were sentenced to death and three others were given jail terms after court in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai convicted them of drug trafficking
- APRIL 9, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wong Hoi-bun, a Hong Kong businessman who killed and...
Wong Hoi-bun, a Hong Kong businessman who killed and dismembered a Philippine Chinese man that he had kidnapped from a Shenzhen hotel with two accomplices on February 19, 1995, was executed in Shenzhen, China