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
- AUGUST 17, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Nine people convicted of violent robberies, in four...
Nine people convicted of violent robberies, in four of which their victims died, were executed in Beijing, media said
- AUGUST 16, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Shanghai held a sentencing rally for major violent...
Shanghai held a sentencing rally for major violent crimes, including robbing, snatching away people's property and seriously threatening people's safety
- AUGUST 16, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three Hong Kong men found guilty of drug trafficking...
Three Hong Kong men found guilty of drug trafficking and possession were executed in Shenzhen after their appeals were rejected by the Guangdong Province People's High Court
- AUGUST 15, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Guangdong...
The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Guangdong Province, tried 24 people for participating in criminal syndicates, intentional assault, blackmail, kidnapping and extortion
- AUGUST 15, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhou Guanglong was convicted by the Guangzhou Intermediate...
Zhou Guanglong was convicted by the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court of organizing gangsters, injuring and blackmailing people, illegally carrying weapons and other serious crimes and sentenced to death
- AUGUST 14, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Yunnan Daily reported that the Intermediate People's...
The Yunnan Daily reported that the Intermediate People's Court in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest Yunnan Province, sentenced Yang Hongying, female, to death with two years reprieve, deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscation of a
- AUGUST 13, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhou Qidong, former member of Anhui Province's Wuhu...
Zhou Qidong, former member of Anhui Province's Wuhu City Party Committee Standing Committee and secretary of the city political science and law commission, who hired killers to kill a woman, was executed together with Zhao Zhenghe, Wang Changchun, and Yua
- AUGUST 9, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Xiamen Intermediate People's Court, in Fujian Province,...
Xiamen Intermediate People's Court, in Fujian Province, sentenced Zhao Keming, Xiamen vice-mayor, to death with two years reprieve and confiscation of all assets for accepting bribes
- AUGUST 9, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Zhejiang Province,...
Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Zhejiang Province, sentenced Zhou Hang, director of the Provincial Pharmaceutical Supervision Administration, to death with a two year reprieve
- AUGUST 8, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A mail bomb designer in east China was sentenced to...
A mail bomb designer in east China was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve by a local court
- AUGUST 7, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Shaoyang Intermediate People's Court, in Hunan Province,...
Shaoyang Intermediate People's Court, in Hunan Province, sentenced Yang Fengjie, Zhou Xiaoqiao, Xie Xiheng and Liu Huaying to death
- AUGUST 6, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Nigerians Johnson Oshodi, Tunde Apatira, Oladotun Lukmanu...
Nigerians Johnson Oshodi, Tunde Apatira, Oladotun Lukmanu Umaru and a Chinese national from Hong Kong, Chu Tak Fai, appealed to the Malaysia Federal Court for a revision of their death sentences following a decision by the Court of Appeal acquitting mecha