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 15, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China's top judge, Xiao Yang, president of the Supreme...
China's top judge, Xiao Yang, president of the Supreme People's Court, said crime was on the rise, and called on the country to continue its controversial "Strike Hard" campaign, which rights groups warned lead to abuses of justice
- DECEMBER 15, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three men were sentenced to death after being convicted...
Three men were sentenced to death after being convicted of kidnapping 32 young women and selling them into marriages for as little as 1,000 yuan (120 dollars), state press reported
- DECEMBER 13, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three farmers, a worker and an unknown number of other...
Three farmers, a worker and an unknown number of other people were executed in China's capital, the Beijing Legal Times reported
- DECEMBER 12, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wang Jiande, Wang Jianfu and Chen Guo, three members...
Wang Jiande, Wang Jianfu and Chen Guo, three members of a criminal gang, were executed in south-eastern China's Fujian province after a court convicted them of murder, armed robbery and other violent crimes, the People's Court Daily reported
- DECEMBER 11, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Four people were given death sentences, suspended for...
Four people were given death sentences, suspended for two years, and 30 others were jailed for up to life in a case involving a huge amount of illegal caffeine, state media reported
- DECEMBER 10, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A man in southern China's Guangxi province was sentenced...
A man in southern China's Guangxi province was sentenced to death for killing two people and injuring 10 others in a spate of rat-poisoning incidents
- DECEMBER 9, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Daxiao, former director of the Civil Affairs Bureau...
Li Daxiao, former director of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Xiajin County, in east China's Shandong Province, was sentenced to death with a reprieve for murder
- DECEMBER 9, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A man in central China was found guilty of murdering...
A man in central China was found guilty of murdering 17 boys and sentenced to death
- DECEMBER 8, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A court in southwest China's Sichuan province sentenced...
A court in southwest China's Sichuan province sentenced five people to death for selling heroin, state media reported
- DECEMBER 3, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Four gang leaders, Yao Zhihong, He Jianbiao, Li Zhibing...
Four gang leaders, Yao Zhihong, He Jianbiao, Li Zhibing and Zhou Limin, were given death sentences by the Shaoyang City Intermediate People's Court in Hunan province
- DECEMBER 2, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A policeman in central China's Anhui province, identified...
A policeman in central China's Anhui province, identified only by his surname Dai, was executed after being convicted of strangling his mistress to death, state press reported
- NOVEMBER 30, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Huang Yaquan and Huang Shengyu, two prisoners wrongly...
Huang Yaquan and Huang Shengyu, two prisoners wrongly convicted of robbery in March 1994 and given suspended death sentences were released and given compensation by a court in southern China's Hainan province