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 15, 2012South KoreaDEATH PENALTYSOUTH KOREA: DEATH SENTENCE IN GROTESQUE MURDER CASE
A South Korean court handed down a death sentence to a Chinese national who was
JUNE 15, 2012ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRAFFICKING 223 INFANTS IN LESS THAN A YEAR
A Chinese woman was sentenced to death for abducting and trafficking 223 infants over
- JUNE 14, 2012ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chinese state media say a man has been sentenced...
Chinese state media say a man has been sentenced to death for forging currency worth tens of millions of dollars.
JUNE 13, 2012ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: BUDDHIST MONK SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH REPRIEVE
In China, a man who lived as a Buddhist monk for 18 years after committing murder
JUNE 11, 2012ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MORE STRINGENT JUDICIAL PROCEDURES FOR DEATH PENALTY CASES
A government action plan was released in China to improve the trial procedures and reviews of death
JUNE 3, 2012UgandaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: UGANDAN DRUG DEALERS SURVIVE GALLOWS
The Chinese government has agreed to lift the death sentence on a total of 22 Ugandans
MAY 25, 2012South KoreaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: SOUTH KOREAN MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
A South Korean man has been sentenced to death for drug trafficking in the eastern
- MAY 22, 2012ChinaDEATH PENALTY
the former chairman of a State-owned food enterprise...
the former chairman of a State-owned food enterprise...
MAY 21, 2012ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: TYCOON JAILED AFTER DEATH SENTENCE REVOKED
A former Chinese tycoon who was convicted of illegally raising money for her business has been sentenced
MAY 18, 2012ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: PLEDGE NOT TO EXECUTE A LONGTIME FUGITIVE IN CANADA HONOURED
Lai Changxing, who spent 12 years on the run in Canada as China’s most notorious fugitive,
MAY 9, 2012ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: BEIJING TAX CHIEF GETS DEATH SENTENCE
The former chief of the Beijing Local Taxation Bureau was sentenced to death with a
- APRIL 27, 2012ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: EX-POLITICAL ADVISOR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BRIBERY
A Chinese court sentenced Song Chenguang, former senior political advisor of east