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 20, 2013ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN GETS DEATH FOR KILLING 7 IN 9 DAYS
A man who went on a killing spree across three provinces with a friend last year received
- JUNE 19, 2013ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: AUTHORITIES THREATEN DEATH PENALTY FOR SERIOUS POLLUTERS
Chinese authorities have given courts the powers to hand down the death penalty in serious
JUNE 18, 2013ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: OFFICIAL EXECUTED FOR RAPING GIRLS
An official in central China's Henan Province was executed for raping 11 underage girls, sources with the Henan Provincial Higher People's Court confirmed.
MAY 30, 2013ChinaDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: SUPREME PEOPLE'S COURT CONFIRMS DEATH FOR CHINESE DRUG MULE
In Vietnam, the Supreme People’s Court upheld the death penalty handed down by a provincial
- MAY 15, 2013ChinaDEATH PENALTY
the former deputy police chief of the Chinese megacity
the former deputy police chief of the Chinese megacity
MAY 15, 2013ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ‘ILLEGAL’ FUNDRAISING
A court in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang sentenced to death a woman convicted
MARCH 27, 2013ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: COURT SENTENCES 3 DRUG DEALERS TO DEATH, JAILS 18
A court in southeast China's Fujian Province said that it has sentenced three
- MARCH 14, 2013ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: ALLY OF DISGRACED BO SENTENCED ON GRAFT CHARGES
An ally of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai has received a suspended death sentence
- MARCH 1, 2013ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MEKONG RIVER MURDERERS EXECUTED BY LETHAL INJECTION
Myanmar drug lord Naw Kham, who was convicted of murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the
- MARCH 1, 2013ChinaDEATH PENALTY
the man behind a botched robbery's fatal bombing in the central Chinese city of Wuhan
the man behind a botched robbery's fatal bombing in the central Chinese city of Wuhan
- FEBRUARY 28, 2013ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhao Fuli, 45, who killed a couple in Shunyi district in 2010...
Zhao Fuli, 45, who killed a couple in Shunyi district in 2010...
FEBRUARY 28, 2013ChinaDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: CHINESE MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRAFFICKING 11KG OF NARCOTICS
In Vietnam, the Ho Chi Minh City Supreme People's Court of Appeal rejected an