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
- DECEMBER 9, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: FORMER TOP PROVINCIAL POLITICAL ADVISOR GETS SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR TAKING BRIBES
Huang Yao, 62, former chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), received a death sentence with a two-year reprieve for taking bribes by the Intermediate People's Court of Chengdu.
- NOVEMBER 26, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA OVERTURNS 10 PERCENT OF DEATH SENTENCES
China has overturned 10 percent of death sentences handed down in the country since the
- NOVEMBER 26, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
NINE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHINA
six people were sentenced to death and three to suspended death for drug trafficking in China. Cui Changui, Li Zhanyong, Yang Linqu, Zhao Jiandong...
- NOVEMBER 23, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH REPRIEVE FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING IN NORTHEAST CHINA
the Intermediate People's Court of Changchun in northeast China's Jilin Province sentenced two to death with a two-year reprieve for drug trafficking.
NOVEMBER 19, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: OFFICIAL EXECUTED FOR SELLING IMPERIAL RELICS
China executed a local official six years after he was convicted of illegally selling hundreds
- NOVEMBER 16, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
DRUNK DRIVER SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHINA OVER FATAL COLLISIONS
the Intermediate People's Court in Fuyang city in China's eastern Anhui province sentenced Dong Fei, 33, to death for killing two people while driving when drunk in March.
- NOVEMBER 16, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
TWO GANG LEADERS EXECUTED IN SW. CHINA
Chen Zhiyi and Yang Quan were executed in southwest China...
- NOVEMBER 12, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA'S TOP COURT APPROVES DEATH PENALTIES
China's Supreme People's Court approved the death penalty of three men, it said in a
- OCTOBER 31, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
DEATH SENTENCES FOR ATTEMPTED RAPE OF 16-YEAR-OLD GIRLS IN CENTRAL CHINA
policeman Gong Cheng and car mechanic Lin Yi were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve...
- OCTOBER 31, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: POLICE CHIEF SENTENCED FOR CAUSING GIRL'S DEATH
traffic police squad head Gong Cheng, 32, the section head of the traffic police squad in Fenghuang county, Hunan, China, and Lin Yi , 40, were both sentenced to death with two-year reprieves by the Intermediate People's Court in Xiangxi Autonomous Prefec
- OCTOBER 28, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
TWO EXECUTED FOR KIDNAPPING, MURDERING CHILDREN IN S. CHINA
Kong Jinlin, 36, from Meizhou City in Guangdong, and Shu Luwen, 23, were executed in south China's Guangdong Province.
- OCTOBER 20, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
LIBERIAN JUDGE SAID ANNOUNCES DEATH SENTENCE FOR TWO CHINESE NATIONALS
Judge Blamo Dixon of Criminal Court "A" at the Temple of Justice in Liberia...