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 15, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: TWO-YEAR REPRIEVE FOR WIFE WHO PAID TO HAVE HUSBAND KILLED
Chen Liwei, 39, a Zhejiang Province native...
SEPTEMBER 9, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: ANTI-CORRUPTION CHIEF SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER BRIBES
provincial anti-corruption official Wang Huayuan, 62, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
FORMER CHINESE OFFICIAL SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH TWO-YEAR REPRIEVE FOR CORRUPTION
in southwest China's Guizhou Province, former government official Fan Zhongqian was sentenced to death by the Guiyang Intermediate People's Court with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes from 1988 to 2008.
SEPTEMBER 2, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: APPEALS ARE ENSURED FOR DEATH CASES
China has taken a new move to prevent wrongful convictions in death sentence
- AUGUST 26, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA EXECUTES MAN FOR KILLING 15-YEAR-OLD
real estate employee Song Feiran, of Songxi Village, Xi'an, was executed for killing He An, 15, following a land dispute in northwest China' s Shaanxi Province.
- AUGUST 24, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
SENIOR CHINESE POLICE OFFICER SENTENCED FOR GRAFT
former Chinese Assistant Minister for Public Security Zheng Shaodong was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking bribes worth more than 8.3 million yuan, Xinhua news agency reported.
- AUGUST 13, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE GETS DEATH FOR FATAL BUS BLAZE
the intermediate people's court in Changsha, in central China's Hunan Province...
- AUGUST 13, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: BEIJING COURT REJECTS DEATH-ROW COMMERCE OFFICIAL' S APPEAL
the Beijing Higher People's Court in China rejected the appeal of former Ministry of Commerce senior inspector Guo Jingyi, 44, against his May 2010 death sentence for accepting bribes valued at about 8.45 million yuan between 1998 and 2007.
- AUGUST 13, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: OFFICIAL GETS DEATH SENTENCE
a Chinese court sentenced former senior city economic planner Pi Qiansheng to a suspended death and confiscated his property for taking bribes and abusing his power, state news agency Xinhua said.
- AUGUST 11, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SW CHINA GANG CRACKDOWN
in Chongqing Municipality, China, the No. 5 Intermediate People's Court sentenced an unidentified man to a suspended death sentence in a prostitution and gang case that has already seen two women sentenced to death
- AUGUST 11, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE WOMEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR PROSTITUTION RING
a Chinese court sentenced two women...
- AUGUST 10, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
SOUTH CHINA COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Hu Yihua, 29, was sentenced to death by the intermediate people's court in Jieyang City of Guangdong, south China, for shooting four people dead, including two traffic policemen, on July 2 and 5, 2010.