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 10, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
President of the Supreme People's Court, told judges...
President of the Supreme People's Court, told judges they should not hesitate to use tough penalties against corrupt cadres and the four "bad elements" of society
- JANUARY 9, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Jur'at Nuri and Abduhalik Abdureshit were executed...
Jur'at Nuri and Abduhalik Abdureshit were executed in Yining city in the Xinjiang region, for working to overthrow Chinese rule
- JANUARY 5, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Guangqiang, a Hong Kong businessman who smuggled...
Li Guangqiang, a Hong Kong businessman who smuggled 33,000 bibles to China in 2000, may face the death penalty for practicing unauthorized religious worship, the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said
- JANUARY 4, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In accordance with law regarding a large smuggling...
In accordance with law regarding a large smuggling case the Jiangmen City Intermediate People's Court held a public trial on Huang Guolin, a dismissed worker of customs, Fu Zhijian and Hu Yingcong, former staff members of the Taishan customs and sentenced
- JANUARY 4, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Intermediate Peoples Court in Foshan city, Guangdong...
The Intermediate Peoples Court in Foshan city, Guangdong province, sentenced 6 men to death for unrelated murder and manslaughter charges
- JANUARY 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China also condemned to death and executed many people...
China also condemned to death and executed many people in accord with the national campaign against corruption, which was strengthened after March's annual session of the National People's Congress
- JANUARY 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On April 14, 2000, Prison governor Jiayong Renqing...
On April 14, 2000, Prison governor Jiayong Renqing of Lhasa jail in Tibet said that the number of prisoners in Tibet jails represents 0
- JANUARY 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Domestic consumption of drugs is becoming `more serious...
Domestic consumption of drugs is becoming `more serious with each passing day', according to an official white paper, which acknowledges that `the situation is grim for the anti-drug struggle
- JANUARY 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Death sentences are often pronounced in public and...
Death sentences are often pronounced in public and the condemned prisoner is presented to the crowd and forced to bow his head and wear a sign with the name of his crime written on it around his neck
- JANUARY 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International believes that in actual fact...
Amnesty International believes that in actual fact the number of death sentences and executions is much higher than the figures in their possession; this is because the Chinese authorities never publish statistics on the death penalty as they are consider
- JANUARY 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China still holds the record for executions
China still holds the record for executions
- JANUARY 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A revised Criminal Procedure Law came into force in...
A revised Criminal Procedure Law came into force in January 1997