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
- MARCH 11, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The European Union vowed to keep pressuring China over...
The European Union vowed to keep pressuring China over its human rights record and urged Beijing to curtail its frequent use of the death penalty
- MARCH 11, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The fifteen EU member countries will express "their...
The fifteen EU member countries will express "their deep concern over serious human rights violations in China and lack of progress in several areas" before the UN Human rights Commission's 58th session in Geneva
- MARCH 11, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In 2001 a total 150,913 criminals were sentenced to...
In 2001 a total 150,913 criminals were sentenced to imprisonment of five years or more, to life imprisonment, or to death penalty; an increase of 15
- MARCH 10, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In its final trial the Jiangsu Provincial Higher People's...
In its final trial the Jiangsu Provincial Higher People's Court sentenced Jiang Deping to death, the Xinhua Daily reported
- MARCH 7, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A spokesman for the banned Falun Gong group claimed...
A spokesman for the banned Falun Gong group claimed that Chinese security forces have been ordered to shoot members of the banned cult caught posting banners and signs in public
- MARCH 5, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Police arrested about 60 people who were trying to...
Police arrested about 60 people who were trying to air grievances to the NPC, said two protesters who were detained
- MARCH 5, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Shantou Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Guangdong...
Shantou Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Guangdong Province, announced the final verdicts of the death sentences of drug traffickers Chen Kexin, Zheng Shaodong and Ma Hongguang, the Guangzhou Daily reported
- MARCH 1, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Two members of a criminal gang who battered people...
Two members of a criminal gang who battered people to death with a hammer and robbed them of valuable items were executed in Beijing
- MARCH 1, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Bengbu Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Anhui...
Bengbu Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Anhui Province, sentenced Zhou Qidong, member of the Municipal Standing Committee, to death for intentional homicide
- FEBRUARY 27, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Two men were sentenced to death by Shanghai No 1 Intermediate...
Two men were sentenced to death by Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People's Court for murdering a police officer on February 8 in the city's Pudong New Area
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A non-legislative report by Vasco Graga Moura (EPP-ED,...
A non-legislative report by Vasco Graga Moura (EPP-ED, P) on the Commission's paper on an EU strategy towards China was adopted by the Foreign Affairs Committee with one vote against and two abstentions
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A non-legislative report by Vasco Graga Moura (EPP-ED,...
A non-legislative report by Vasco Graga Moura (EPP-ED, P) on the Commission's paper on an EU strategy towards China was adopted by the Foreign Affairs Committee with one vote against and two abstentions