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 29, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Eight criminals, convicted of charges including robbery...
Eight criminals, convicted of charges including robbery and murder, were executed in the Chinese capital of Beijing
- APRIL 24, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
China voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva
- APRIL 22, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People's Court announced...
The Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People's Court announced its verdict in an ivory smuggling case, imposing the death penalty on Li Wenjian, with a two-year probation, and sentencing Liang Zhiqiang to life imprisonment
- APRIL 16, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three people in northeast China 's Jilin Province were...
Three people in northeast China 's Jilin Province were given their final ruling on their death sentences and were executed on the same day
- APRIL 16, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Gansu Province,...
The Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Gansu Province, China, sentenced to death Li Yuanjie, 21, Peng Gang, 22, Yao Wenkun, 23, Wu Guohua, 21, and sentenced Wang Ming, 20, to death with a reprieve
- APRIL 12, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wei Licheng, 39, a serial rapist convicted of attacks...
Wei Licheng, 39, a serial rapist convicted of attacks on 15 women and four children and 20 robberies was sentenced to death by a Beijing court
- APRIL 11, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed more people than any other country in...
China executed more people than any other country in 2002, two-thirds of the known world total of 1,500, and many of those cases violated international law, the human rights group Amnesty International said
- APRIL 9, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Out of 78 North Koreans arrested in the attempt to...
Out of 78 North Koreans arrested in the attempt to escape from China to South Korea in January, 30 were handed over by the Chinese authorities to North Korean frontier guards
- APRIL 7, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China is much freer than before, but its sheer size...
China is much freer than before, but its sheer size makes it the world's No
- APRIL 4, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Four men responsible for a series of violent robberies...
Four men responsible for a series of violent robberies in which five people died were sentenced to death by the Intermediate People's Court of Shenyang city in northeast China's Liaoning Province
- APRIL 2, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The EU read a statement at the UN Commission on Human...
The EU read a statement at the UN Commission on Human Rights expressing concern at China's "extensive use" of the death penalty and declaring that torture, arbitrary arrests and religious repression were widespread in the country
- APRIL 2, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China published its own report on the human rights...
China published its own report on the human rights situation in the United States in response to the US State Department's human rights reports which saw the US note the human rights abuses in all countries globally, except itself