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 23, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: UIGHUR GROUPS CRITICISE DEATH SENTENCES
Uighur advocacy groups criticised the death sentences of four ethnic Uighur men, sentenced for three separate incidents of violence in 2010.
FEBRUARY 23, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: XINJIANG DEATH SENTENCES APPROVED
China's highest court has approved the execution of four men convicted in a series of murders in the restive
- FEBRUARY 18, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA DELAYS EXECUTION OF PHILIPPINE DRUG MULES
China postponed the execution of three Filipinos found guilty of drug smuggling.
- FEBRUARY 17, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR CORRUPT OFFICIAL
a former director of the land resources bureau in Guiyang City...
- FEBRUARY 16, 2011CanadaDEATH PENALTY
CANADA DEPORTS CHINESE BUSINESSMAN DESPITE CONCERNS ABOUT DEATH PENALTY
a multimillionaire Chinese refugee claimant accused of fraud in his homeland was deported
- FEBRUARY 11, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA TO EXECUTE 3 PINOYS AS DRUG TRAFFICKERS
three Filipinos convicted for drug trafficking in China had their death sentences upheld by the Supreme People's Court, the Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs said.
- JANUARY 31, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER ILLEGAL DEMOLITION IN NORTH CHINA
Gao Haidong was sentenced to death by the Taiyuan City Intermediate People's Court in north China's Shanxi Province for murdering villager Meng during an illegal demolition on October 30, 2010.
- JANUARY 31, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
the No. 1 Intermediate People's Court of Chongqing...
- JANUARY 30, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE PROVINCIAL LEGISLATOR GETS SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR CORRUPTION
Song Yong, 56, a former senior legislator in northeast China's Liaoning Province was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking bribes totalling 10.2 million yuan during 2000 to 2009 by the Second Intermediate People's Court of Beijing.
- JANUARY 26, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: FORMER COURT CHIEF SENTENCED ON GRAFT CHARGES
Zhang Tao, 48, former vice president of the Superior People's Court of Chongqing Municipality in southwest China...
JANUARY 17, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: ILLICIT ORGAN TRADE CONTINUES UNABATED
Illegal organ harvesting has become worse under reforms put in place by
- JANUARY 14, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR GUNMAN, ARMY DESERTER
in southwest China, Sichuan Provincial Higher People's Court upheld the death sentence of army deserter Wu Yong for killing a fellow serviceman in Yibin City of Sichuan in September 2003, for armed robbery and for killing Luo Zhongyong, 12, in 2002.