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
- JUNE 12, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China, which executes more people each year than any...
China, which executes more people each year than any another country, was restrained in its reaction to America's execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh on June 11
- JUNE 11, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China's highest court and prosecutor's office have...
China's highest court and prosecutor's office have issued a legal interpretation permitting use of the death penalty and harsh anti-subversion laws to punish followers of the banned Falun Gong, in a decision that may signal a new round of trials of group
- JUNE 10, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In a nationwide order to local law-enforcement agencies...
In a nationwide order to local law-enforcement agencies the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate broadly reinterpret murder and subversion statutes for use in prosecution of Falun Gong adherents
- JUNE 10, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Foshan Intermediate People's Court, sentenced to...
The Foshan Intermediate People's Court, sentenced to death five out of the 15 members of a gang convicted of running drug laboratories and selling more than 100,000 tablets of Ecstasy in Guangdong
- JUNE 8, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Swedish Presidency of the EU, represented by Council...
The Swedish Presidency of the EU, represented by Council President Anna Lindh, outlined, during the meeting with the head of Chinese diplomacy Tang Jiaxuan in Beijing , the Union's grievances - torture, death penalty, police brutality, barriers to freedom
- JUNE 7, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty criminals were shot in Xian, Shaanxi province,...
Twenty criminals were shot in Xian, Shaanxi province, as part of the Strike Hard campaign, which has seen more than 1,000 executed in two months
- JUNE 6, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wuhan Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Hubei...
Wuhan Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Hubei Province, sentenced to death Hu Shan, director of the post office customs unit, and sentenced to death with a reprieve Xu Guoyan , chief of the financial section of Wuhan customs
- JUNE 6, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Bose Prefectural Intermediate People's Court held a...
Bose Prefectural Intermediate People's Court held a public rally to sentence to death the three "triad" leaders Ding Xu, Lu Zhongling and Huang Jie
- JUNE 5, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty-one convicted criminals were executed in a single...
Twenty-one convicted criminals were executed in a single day in the in the central Chinese city of Chongqing
- JUNE 4, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Pingdingshan City Court pronounced publicly the...
The Pingdingshan City Court pronounced publicly the sentences on a 40-strong criminal syndicate
- JUNE 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The regional Higher People 's Court confirmed the death...
The regional Higher People 's Court confirmed the death sentence handed down to the former police chief of Liuzhou city in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
- MAY 31, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Shaoyang (Hunan Province) Municipal Intermediate People's...
Shaoyang (Hunan Province) Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced six triad gangsters including Deng Fei to death