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 15, 2015ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA TO REQUIRE POLICE TO FILM ALL INTERROGATIONS
China will require police to film and record all interrogations in criminal cases to ensure that law enforcement
FEBRUARY 9, 2015ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MINING TYCOON LIU HAN EXECUTED
A Chinese mining billionaire said to have links with disgraced former security tsar Zhou Yongkang and who
FEBRUARY 1, 2015ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: 2 FROM BANNED SECT EXECUTED FOR MURDER AT MCDONALD'S
A father and daughter have been executed in China for attacking and killing a woman who had refused to
JANUARY 10, 2015ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: SCHOOL DEPUTY PRINCIPAL EXECUTED FOR KIDNAPPING, KILLING GIRL
Yang Haijun, former deputy principal of a primary school in north China's Hebei Province, was executed for
- JANUARY 1, 2015ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In February 2011, China dropped the death penalty for 13 non-violent crimes
In February 2011, China dropped the death penalty for 13 non-violent crimes
- DECEMBER 30, 2014ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: S. KOREAN DRUG OFFENDER EXECUTED
DECEMBER 26, 2014ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: JAPANESE, KOREAN DRUG DEALERS SENTENCED
Six people nabbed in a cross-border drug trafficking case in China, including one Japanese and two
- DECEMBER 8, 2014ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA SENTENCES EIGHT TO DEATH FOR KNIFE, BOMB ATTACKS IN RESTIVE XINJIANG
China sentenced eight people to death for their roles in two knife and bomb attacks this spring in the
DECEMBER 4, 2014ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA TO STOP HARVESTING EXECUTED PRISONERS' ORGANS
China has promised to stop harvesting organs from executed prisoners by 1 January, state media report.
OCTOBER 31, 2014ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN WHO KILLED TODDLER IN PARKING ROW EXECUTED
A Chinese man who killed a two-year-old girl after a row with her mother over a parking space was
- OCTOBER 31, 2014ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD FOR THREE WHO LED MASS STABBING IN KUNMING
A Chinese appeal court has upheld death sentences for three people convicted over a mass stabbing this
OCTOBER 27, 2014ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA MULLS SCRAPPING DEATH PENALTY FOR 9 CRIMES
Chinese lawmakers are considering removing the death penalty as punishment for nine crimes, including