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 24, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER INNER MONGOLIA BANK CHIEF HANDED DEATH SENTENCE WITH TWO-YEAR REPRIEVE
A Chinese court on 21 December 2018 sentenced the former chairman of Bank of Inner Mongolia, a private joint-stock lender, to death for corruption with a two-year reprieve, the official Xinhua news agency said, effectively meaning he will be jailed for li
DECEMBER 21, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA EXECUTES PETITIONER WHO KILLED POLICE OFFICER BRINGING HIM HOME
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Henan have executed a petitioner for killing a police officer who was forcibly escorting him home from a petitioning trip in the Chinese capital, Radio Free Asia reported on 20 December 2018.
DECEMBER 14, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA TO EXECUTE MAN WHO RAMMED SUV INTO CROWD THEN ATTACKED PEOPLE WITH SHOVEL AND HAMMER
A man who killed 15 people and injured dozens more when he ploughed a vehicle into a public square before attacking pedestrians with a hammer and a shovel, is to be executed by Chinese authorities.
- DECEMBER 5, 2018BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
BULGARIA EXTRADITES GRAFT SUSPECT TO CHINA
A former Chinese official accused of taking bribes has been extradited from Bulgaria to China in the first such move by an European Union member state, Beijing's top graft buster said on 30 November 2018.
- NOVEMBER 23, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: XINJIANG AUTHORITIES SENTENCE UYGHUR PHILANTHROPIST TO DEATH FOR UNSANCTIONED HAJJ
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have sentenced a prominent Uyghur businessman and philanthropist to death for taking an unsanctioned Muslim holy pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, according to his brother, RFA reported o
OCTOBER 29, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTYDRUG PRODUCERS EXECUTED IN SOUTH CHINA
Two drug makers were executed on 26 October 2018 in south China's Hainan Province for manufacturing drugs, according to a local court.
OCTOBER 2, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: COURT HANDS SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE TO EVICTEE WHO KILLED OFFICIAL
A court in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi has handed a suspended death sentence to an elderly man convicted of the killing of a local official during the forced demolition of homes in his village, RFA reported on September 29, 2018.
OCTOBER 1, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: PROMINENT UYGHUR INTELLECTUAL GIVEN TWO-YEAR SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR ‘SEPARATISM’
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have given a two-year suspended death sentence to a prominent Uyghur intellectual for exhibiting “separatist tendencies,” according to an official source, RFA reported on September
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA EXECUTES MAN WHO KILLED 9 STUDENTS IN SCHOOL STABBING
China executed a man on September 27, 2018 for killing nine students and injuring 11 others in a knife attack at a middle school in central China's Shaanxi province in April, according to a post on a Chinese court's official social media account.
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTY
ARSONIST NANNY EXECUTED IN EAST CHINA
Mo Huanjing, a former nanny who had been sentenced to death for starting a fire that killed four members of a family in 2017, was executed on September 21, 2018 in east China's Zhejiang Province, a local court said.
AUGUST 7, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: DRUG LORD BILLED AS THE 'GODFATHER OF CRYSTAL METH' IS SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Chinese drug lord known as the 'godfather of crystal meth' was sentenced to death.
AUGUST 2, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINESE 'TRUE CRIME' NOVELIST SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR COMMITTING THE MURDERS THAT INSPIRED HIS WORK
A famous crime fiction writer in China's Zhejiang Province has turned out to be a robber with four deaths on his conscience.