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
- NOVEMBER 17, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR TIBETAN FOR SEPARATISM
a Tibetan was handed a suspended death sentence by the intermediate people’s Court of Nyarong (Chinese: Xinlong) County in China, said Dharamsala-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy.
NOVEMBER 15, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER DEATH ROW DUO AWARDED COMPENSATION
two wrongly condemned death row inmates were granted state compensation in China after they were
NOVEMBER 9, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: NINE EXECUTED OVER XINJIANG RIOTS
Chinese authorities have executed nine people who had been convicted over riots in the Xinjiang region in July, Chinese officials have said.
- NOVEMBER 5, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
GANG LEADER EXECUTED IN CHINA
a former gang leader was executed in northern China after being convicted of murder, kidnapping, and extortion, state media reported.
- NOVEMBER 5, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
GANG LEADER EXECUTED IN CHINA
in Yushu city in China’s northeastern province of Jilin, Yushu's former deputy mayor Xu Fengshan was sentenced to death with a reprieve of two years for taking more than 20 million yuan in bribes and harbouring criminal organisations.
NOVEMBER 4, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYBEIJING TO ADOPT LETHAL INJECTION FOR ALL DEATH PENALTY CRIMINALS NEXT YEAR
Beijing will adopt lethal injection next year for all death row inmates, and a lethal injection room has already
OCTOBER 30, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: NINE DEATH SENTENCES UPHELD IN XINJIANG
an appeals court in western China upheld the death sentences of 9 people convicted of murder and other
- OCTOBER 28, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH PENALTY SUSTAINED IN FATAL FACTORY BRAWL
a court in south China upheld the death sentences of a man involved in a toy factory brawl that left two Uygur workers dead on June 26.
OCTOBER 27, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION OF EXECUTION OF TIBETANS IN LHASA
Two people have been executed in China for their involvement in deadly riots in Tibet last year, the Chinese
- OCTOBER 20, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Fu Chengli, 23, was sentenced to death with a two year reprieve...
Fu Chengli, 23, was sentenced to death with a two year reprieve...
OCTOBER 20, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: NINE UIGHURS EXECUTED
exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer said she had learnt that "out of the 11 Uighurs who were sentenced to
OCTOBER 20, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FOUR TIBETANS EXECUTED IN LHASA OVER 2008 UNREST
as many as four Tibetans were executed for their alleged involvement in the 2008 anti-China unrest in the