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
DECEMBER 31, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD FOR GANG LEADER IN RAPE CASES
Twenty-one years after being sentenced to death for rapes and other crimes, Sun Xiaoguo had his death penalty upheld by the Yunnan High People's Court on 23 December 2019.
DECEMBER 27, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: ARSONIST EXECUTED OVER FATAL FIRE IN GUANGDONG
An arsonist who set a fire in a KTV bar in south China's Guangdong Province that killed 18 people was executed on 24 December 2019, according to a local court.
NOVEMBER 18, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: TYCOON SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR FORMING A CRIMINAL SYNDICATE WITH TRIAD GANGSTERS
A former tycoon in China who built a £1 billion empire through sheer violence and terror on 6 November 2019 was sentenced to death with reprieve.
- NOVEMBER 7, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA SENTENCES 9 IN FENTANYL TRAFFICKING CASE AFTER US TIP
Xingtai Intermediate People’s court in Xingtai county, north China’s Hebei province, on 7 November 2019 sentenced nine fentanyl traffickers in a case that is the culmination of a rare collaboration between Chinese and U.S. law enforcement to crack down on
OCTOBER 18, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: SUPREME PEOPLE'S COURT REAFFIRMS STRICT CONTROL OF DEATH PENALTY
Supreme People's Court (SPC) on 17 October 2019 asked courts at various levels to strictly observe China's policy of strictly controlling and prudently applying the death penalty.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: A UIGHUR PROFESSOR VANISHED AND MAY BE EXECUTED
Uyghur intellectual Tashpolat Tiyip may be facing imminent execution by the Chinese government after two years of languishing in secret detention, Amnesty International warned on 9 September 2019.
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: SUPREME PEOPLE’S COURT ISSUES NEW GUIDELINES FOR DEATH PENALTY
The Supreme People’s Court issued guidelines on 9 August 2019 to regulate death sentence review and execution procedures to better protect the rights and interests of people on death row.
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: 19 SENTENCED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING THROUGH HUMAN BODIES
A court in east China's Jiangsu Province has sentenced 19 gang members to prison for cross-border drug trafficking, Xinhua reported on 4 September 2019.
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DIDI DRIVER EXECUTED FOR RAPING, MURDERING PASSENGER
Zhong Yuan, a Didi driver convicted of robbing, raping and murdering a passenger, was executed in east China's Zhejiang Province on 30 August 2019 afternoon, according to the Supreme People's Court (SPC).
- JULY 31, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN EXECUTED FOR RAPE AND KILLING SPREE
A serial killer who murdered six people and raped 10 women and two girls, including a 12-year-old, was executed on 30 July 2019, according to the country's top court.
JULY 25, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: SUSPENDED DEATH PENALTY FOR LESBIAN WHO MURDERED LOVER OVER GAMBLING DEBTS
A woman has been given a suspended death sentence for murdering her lesbian ex-lover by stabbing her nearly 200 times following an argument in a Hunan hotel, DailyMail Online reported on 24 July 2019.
JULY 18, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR INTENTIONAL HOMICIDE
On the morning of 8 July 2019 the Intermediate Peoples Court of Luan City, Anhui Province, publicly sentenced Wang Yunli to death for intentional homicide, depriving him of political rights for life; confiscating a single-edged tool; compensating the plai