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 1, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On the same day, a local court in south China handed...
On the same day, a local court in south China handed down sentences ranging from imprisonment to death to 14 Myanmarese pirates charged with raiding a Taiwanese cargo ship and setting its 19 crew members adrift in the Andaman Sea
- JANUARY 29, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 29, in a smuggling trial the Huaiyin Municipal...
On January 29, in a smuggling trial the Huaiyin Municipal Intermediate Court in Jiangsu Province gave Huang Ning a death sentence that was suspended for 2 years
- JANUARY 29, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The same day, 21 people were executed in southwestern...
The same day, 21 people were executed in southwestern Chongqing for murder and robbery after a public sentencing ceremony which drew a crowd of three hundred
- JANUARY 29, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 29, authorities in China's southern boomtown...
On January 29, authorities in China's southern boomtown of Shenzhen, a freewheeling special economic zone plagued by drugs, prostitution and organized crime, executed Zhang Guojin and 5 members of his criminal extortion gang shortly after sentencing them
- JANUARY 28, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 28, Yibulayin Simayi, 42, and Abudureyimu...
On January 28, Yibulayin Simayi, 42, and Abudureyimu Aisha, 29, were executed after a public sentencing by the Yili Prefecture Intermediate People's Court
- JANUARY 27, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 27, the Intermediate People's Court in Hangzhou...
On January 27, the Intermediate People's Court in Hangzhou city, capital of eastern Zhejiang province, condemned a woman, Wang Hongying, 34, to death for running a prostitution racket
- JANUARY 27, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 27, Rouzi Keyoumu, 45, was put to deathafter...
On January 27, Rouzi Keyoumu, 45, was put to deathafter the Yili Intermediate People's Court found him guilty of "violent terrorist activities
- JANUARY 25, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 25, the No
On January 25, the No
- JANUARY 20, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 20, the Shantou Intermediate People's Court...
On January 20, the Shantou Intermediate People's Court handed down the death sentence to Lin Jingchuan, skipper of the Yongzaihong No
- JANUARY 19, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 19, 6 people were executed in Beijing for...
On January 19, 6 people were executed in Beijing for murder and robbery
- JANUARY 15, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 15, the Higher People's Court of southwest...
On January 15, the Higher People's Court of southwest China's Yunnan Province established a special court to deal with the growing number of drug-related cases
- JANUARY 15, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 15, Gao Yunliao, a farmer from Henan's Nanzhao...
On January 15, Gao Yunliao, a farmer from Henan's Nanzhao county, was given the death sentence and was executed in central China's Henan Province for attempting to steal a statue of the Buddha dating to the Tang Dynasty