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 20, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wu Hongke, convicted of robbery and murder, was sentenced...
Wu Hongke, convicted of robbery and murder, was sentenced to death at the first trial and deprived of political rights for life by the Quanzhou Intermediate People's Court in south China's Fujian Province
- DECEMBER 20, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On the issue of where people arrested on mainland China...
On the issue of where people arrested on mainland China for crimes committed in Hong Kong should be tried, as on the mainland many crimes are punishable with death, Ong Yew-kim, a Chinese law research fellow at the Chinese University said: "If criminals a
- DECEMBER 20, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Cheng Dongtao, Sun Zhenwu, Chang Yong and six unnamed...
Cheng Dongtao, Sun Zhenwu, Chang Yong and six unnamed people were executed in China for robbery and murder
- DECEMBER 19, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Liang Yaohua, accused of smuggling 262 cars and evading 51
Liang Yaohua, accused of smuggling 262 cars and evading 51
- DECEMBER 19, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament drew attention to the human...
The European Parliament drew attention to the human rights situation in Tibet by adopting a resolution calling on the Chinese Government to pursue the dialogue with the representatives of the Dalai Lama and urging the EU to link its financial aid to China
- DECEMBER 17, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The head of a Chinese kindergarten was sentenced to...
The head of a Chinese kindergarten was sentenced to death for mixing rat poison in salt at a rival school and making 70 children seriously sick, Xinhua news agency said
- DECEMBER 17, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China agreed to issue unconditional invitations to...
China agreed to issue unconditional invitations to UN investigators to go to China and study issues of torture, religious freedom and arbitrary detention, a US envoy said after two days of human-rights talks
- DECEMBER 9, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Human Rights in China, a New York based human rights...
Human Rights in China, a New York based human rights group, said that the case in which a Tibetan monk and a follower, Tenzin Delek and Lobsang Dhondup, had been sentenced to death over a bombing should be heard again
- DECEMBER 8, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Six members of a gang that smuggled more than 100 kilograms...
Six members of a gang that smuggled more than 100 kilograms of heroin into China were sentenced to death in Guangdong province, which borders Hong Kong, the official Xinhua News Agency reported
- DECEMBER 6, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported by Xinhua News Agency that fifty members...
It was reported by Xinhua News Agency that fifty members of three criminal rings were sentenced to death or various prison terms by the No
- DECEMBER 6, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Dalai Lama's Tibetan government-in-exile demanded...
The Dalai Lama's Tibetan government-in-exile demanded the reversals of a death sentence against a Tibetan activist and a suspended death sentence against a senior Buddhist monk handed down by a Chinese court
- DECEMBER 5, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Tibetan human rights group condemned death sentences...
A Tibetan human rights group condemned death sentences passed by a Chinese court on two ethnic Tibetans found guilty of bomb attacks in the south west of China