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
- JULY 23, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR DRINK DRIVING DEATHS
a court in southwest China handed the death penalty to an unlicensed drunk driver who killed four people in Chengdu on December 14, 2008.
- JULY 18, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE GOVERNMENT EXECUTES 196 UIGHURS
a Chinese court sentenced 196 Uighurs to death, accusing them in participation in the unrests, APA reported, quoting Kanal D.
- JULY 15, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: SUSPENDED DEATH PENALTY FOR SINOPEC EX-CHIEF
the former head of Chinese oil giant Sinopec, Chen Tonghai, 60, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in a corruption case involving millions of dollars, Chinese state press reported.
- JULY 14, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN GETS DEATH WITH TWO-YEAR REPRIEVE
a man in China who seriously injured his girlfriend and killed her friend after he suspected they were having an affair was sentenced to death with a reprieve of two years.
- JULY 8, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH PENALTY THREATENED FOR XINJIANG RIOTERS
Li Zhi, the Communist party secretary in Urumqi, China, said "to people suspected of
- JULY 6, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE ON FORMER CHINESE AIRPORT CHIEF
a higher court in east China's Shandong Province upheld an earlier death penalty for the former chief of the Capital Airports Holding Company (CAH) for bribery and embezzlement.
- JUNE 26, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: FOUR MORE TRAFFICKERS EXECUTED ON INTERNATIONAL ANTI-DRUG DAY
China executed four men for drug trafficking on annual international anti-drug day, in
- JUNE 25, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
2 EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING FROM MYANMAR IN CHINA
in China, the Liaoning Provincial Supreme People's Court announced that two men convicted of heading a gang that smuggled drugs from Myanmar into China were executed in May.
JUNE 25, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: 8 EXECUTED IN ANTI-DRUG BATTLE
eight people sentenced to death for drug production and trafficking were executed in China.
- JUNE 23, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: NIGERIAN GETS DEATH IN SOUTH CHINA
four people convicted of drug trafficking were sentenced to death by the Dongguan Intermediate People's Court in south China's Guangdong Province
JUNE 16, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: BEIJING TO ADOPT LETHAL INJECTION
criminals sentenced to death in Beijing, China, are to be killed by lethal injection, not by
- JUNE 4, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH FOR DRUG DEALING
a man was sentenced to death with a two year reprieve by the Shanghai Railway Transport Intermediate People's Court in China. During the trial, prosecutors and defence lawyers discussed their opinions on sentencing with the judge, the first time the railw