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 9, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The wife of a convicted killer who wants to be artificially...
The wife of a convicted killer who wants to be artificially inseminated before her husband's execution is forcing the justice system to clarify what it means to "strip a prisoner of his political and individual rights"
- DECEMBER 7, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The European Union allocated 840,000 euros in support...
The European Union allocated 840,000 euros in support of small-scale human rights projects in China
- DECEMBER 7, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hua Ruizhuo, who murdered 14 women, was sentenced to...
Hua Ruizhuo, who murdered 14 women, was sentenced to death by the Second Intermediate People's Court of Beijing
- DECEMBER 5, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A senior Chinese Communist Party official was executed...
A senior Chinese Communist Party official was executed for hiring hitmen to assassinate a political opponent and his wife and also for corruption, the official Xinhua News Agency reported
- DECEMBER 4, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A woman in east China's Zhejiang Province gave herself...
A woman in east China's Zhejiang Province gave herself and the justice department an unprecedented challenge: she wants to have a baby through artificial insemination, for her husband who is sentenced to death for murder but yet to be executed
- NOVEMBER 28, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Chinese government officially denied that police...
The Chinese government officially denied that police had tortured South Korean drug traffickers in the process of their investigation
- NOVEMBER 27, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
South Korea and China agreed to sign a pact on consular...
South Korea and China agreed to sign a pact on consular affairs obliging both sides to give immediate notification when authorities arrest each other's citizens on criminal charges
- NOVEMBER 24, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A man has been sentenced to death for killing 20 people...
A man has been sentenced to death for killing 20 people in 15 armed robberies during the past 10 years
- NOVEMBER 20, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Two convicts were executed by lethal injection for...
Two convicts were executed by lethal injection for the first time in northeast China' s Liaoning Province, officials said
- NOVEMBER 19, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Six criminals were sentenced to death, including a...
Six criminals were sentenced to death, including a mafia group accused of murder and extortion in Shandong province, the Beijing Youth Daily said
- NOVEMBER 15, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Five people were executed in Beijing, including a former...
Five people were executed in Beijing, including a former top company executive, the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported
- NOVEMBER 15, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Fourteen people were executed in Xinjiang, including...
Fourteen people were executed in Xinjiang, including members of a gang who buried a victim alive