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
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN EXECUTED AFTER RARE RETRIAL
a man convicted of killing a young woman and her 3-year-old brother after his offer
SEPTEMBER 23, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH
the Intermediate People's Court of Xiangtan, in China's Hunan Province, sentenced Wang Yongzhong, the
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: PRISONS ALLOW DEATH ROW INMATES TO MEET RELATIVES
China has made strides in protecting the human rights of prison inmates in recent years, including
SEPTEMBER 21, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: PAKISTANI MAN EXECUTED ON DRUGS CHARGES
China executed by lethal injection Pakistani man Zahid Husain Shah, 35, in Shanghai. He was
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: CHINESE NATIONAL GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR CABBY MURDER
in Singapore, High Court Justice Lee Seiu Kin sentenced odd-job labourer and Chinese national Wang Wenfeng, 32, to death for murdering taxi driver Yuen Swee Hong, 58, in an attempted robbery in Sembawang on April 11, 2009.
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: BEIJING MAN EXECUTED FOR KILLING SIX OF HIS FAMILY
Li Lei, 31, was executed in Beijing, China, for killing his parents, two sons, wife and sister to death on November 23, 2009, at their home in Beijing's Daxing District
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA MUST HALT EXECUTION OF PAKISTAN NATIONAL
the Chinese government should halt the imminent execution of a Pakistan national, Amnesty International said. Syed Zahid Hussain Shah, a 36-year-old-Pakistani businessman, is due to be executed by lethal injection on September 21.
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: CIVIL SERVANT GETS SUSPENDED DEATH PENALTY FOR EMBEZZLEMENT
Liu Di, an accountant from a taxation bureau in Heshan District of Yiyang city in Central Hunan province, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for embezzling 18 million yuan from 2000 to 2010, according to the first instance judgement of the Yi
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: 4 UIGHUR MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER ATTACKS
four ethnic minority men were sentenced to death for the latest spate of violent attacks
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: PAKISTANI FAMILY APPEALS TO CHINA OVER DEATH SENTENCE
the family of Pakistani national Zahid Hussain appealed to the Chinese authorities to commute his death sentence for drug trafficking to life imprisonment on humanitarian grounds.
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE EXECUTED FOR ATTACKING FEMALE STUDENTS
a man who repeatedly stabbed female students over four years, leaving one dead and 23
SEPTEMBER 1, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: 2 EXECUTED AFTER COURT TURNS DOWN THEIR APPEAL
in northeast China, property developer Wang Wenxiang, 51, and his secretary