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
- JANUARY 23, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Daily reported that in early January...
The Guangzhou Daily reported that in early January Neijiang Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Sichuan Province, sentenced "gangsters" Li Ke and Xu Shuliang to death and Ye Ping to death with a reprieve of two years
- JANUARY 21, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Reform in the sphere of human rights and democracy...
Reform in the sphere of human rights and democracy in China should be gradual rather than arise from a revolutionary process, Jan Ruml, the deputy chairman of the Senate from the Freedom Union, told CTK after meeting Chinese dissident Wang Dan
- JANUARY 21, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Reform in the sphere of human rights and democracy...
Reform in the sphere of human rights and democracy in China should be gradual rather than arise from a revolutionary process, Jan Ruml, the deputy chairman of the Senate from the Freedom Union, told CTK after meeting Chinese dissident Wang Dan
- JANUARY 18, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A wife's desperate struggle to have a baby with her...
A wife's desperate struggle to have a baby with her husband who had been sentenced to death, ended on the morning of January 18 with his execution, Beijing Morning News reported
- JANUARY 17, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain and 30 Falun Gong practitioners from...
Hands Off Cain and 30 Falun Gong practitioners from Taiwan demonstrated ion front of the Chinese embassy in Rome in protest against repression by the Chinese authorities of the spiritual movement, and the death sentences handed out to two Christians
- JANUARY 17, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Guangxi provincial judicial organs sentenced Rao Ping...
Guangxi provincial judicial organs sentenced Rao Ping to death for drug trafficking
- JANUARY 17, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Nanping Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Fujian...
Nanping Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Fujian Province, sentenced Xu Jie to death for organizing a triad gang, assault, offering bribes and gambling, the Fujian Daily reported
- JANUARY 16, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Sichuan Provincial Higher People's Court imposed...
The Sichuan Provincial Higher People's Court imposed the death sentence on Li Yushu, former deputy mayor of Leshan City in the southwest China Province, for taking bribes and other crimes
- JANUARY 16, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese court sentenced a South Korean drug trafficker...
A Chinese court sentenced a South Korean drug trafficker to death
- JANUARY 15, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A death sentence passed on a Swiss national for the...
A death sentence passed on a Swiss national for the 1997 murder of a schoolgirl in China's Yunnan province has been commuted to life imprisonment, AP said
- JANUARY 13, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Guo Long Hai, 46, the director of a state-owned company...
Guo Long Hai, 46, the director of a state-owned company in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou, was executed after a tribunal in the city of Nanzhou found him guilty of raping 15 women and murdering 14 of them from 1990 to 2001
- JANUARY 13, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Chinese Ambassador to Egypt, Liu Xiao Ming, repudiated...
The Chinese Ambassador to Egypt, Liu Xiao Ming, repudiated western media reports about the status of Muslims in China, stressing that his government has taken the necessary measures to guarantee the rights of 20 million Muslims in China and their freedom