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
- FEBRUARY 4, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three men were sentenced to death for disrupting power...
Three men were sentenced to death for disrupting power supplies and damaging electrical equipment, the People's Court Daily reported
- FEBRUARY 4, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Xishuangbanna Tai Autonomous Prefecture Intermediate...
Xishuangbanna Tai Autonomous Prefecture Intermediate People's Court, Yunnan Province, sentenced to death Li Kui, 41, deputy director of Xishuangbanna Prefecture Forestry Public Security Bureau, for drug trafficking
- JANUARY 31, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed former truck driver Hua Ruizhuo for...
China executed former truck driver Hua Ruizhuo for killing 14 Beijing prostitutes over three years, the official Xinhua news agency said
- JANUARY 31, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three Hong Kong men - Cheng Pong-chueng, Yeung Lor-fu...
Three Hong Kong men - Cheng Pong-chueng, Yeung Lor-fu and Lam Pui-man - were sentenced to death by Shenzhen's Intermediate People's Court after they were convicted of selling about 180 kilograms of illegal drugs
- JANUARY 31, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shenzhen Municipal Intermediate People's Court,...
The Shenzhen Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Guangdong Province, sentenced "drug criminals" Zheng Bangxiang, Yang Laifu and Lin Peiwen to death and Du Zhiyuan to death with a reprieve
- JANUARY 29, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A centre for execution by lethal injection is to be...
A centre for execution by lethal injection is to be established in China as part of a new policy to phase out the use of the firing squad in capital punishment cases
- JANUARY 28, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Hong Kong businessman was sentenced to two years...
A Hong Kong businessman was sentenced to two years imprisonment for smuggling Bibles into the mainland and two mainlanders have been jailed for three years and fined 150,000 dollars each
- JANUARY 27, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China backed away from putting an alleged Bible-smuggler...
China backed away from putting an alleged Bible-smuggler on trial for his life, instead charging him with the lesser offence of illegal trading
- JANUARY 26, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Sixteen members of a gang accused of running a massive...
Sixteen members of a gang accused of running a massive protection racket in Xuchang, Henan province, were executed after a public sentencing rally, AFP reported
- JANUARY 26, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China is willing to improve its human rights record...
China is willing to improve its human rights record but progress may be slow, according to Swiss delegates returning from talks in Beijing
- JANUARY 25, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Two murderers who brutally killed 14 people were executed...
Two murderers who brutally killed 14 people were executed in Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province in north China
- JANUARY 24, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese drug trafficker who escaped from prison in...
A Chinese drug trafficker who escaped from prison in 1995 was recently arrested by Myanmar police and handed over to the Chinese police