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
AUGUST 7, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER BEIJING AIRPORT BOSS EXECUTED
the former head of Beijing airport's management company was executed in China for
- AUGUST 5, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: TWO EXECUTED FOR DEFRAUDING PUBLIC OF HUGE AMOUNTS
two people were executed for fraud after China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) approved their sentences. The Intermediate People's Court of Hangzhou in southeast Zhejiang Province sentenced Si Chaxian to death.
- JULY 31, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA'S TOP COURT APPROVES COUNTERFEITERS' DEATH PENALTIES
China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) approved the death penalties for two men forging a "huge amount" of fake money in 2004 to 2005.
- JULY 29, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY WILL BE USED MORE SPARINGLY: CHINA COURT
China's highest court urged that the death penalty be used less and for only the most serious criminal cases
JULY 29, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA MOVES TO REDUCE NUMBER OF EXECUTIONS
China is to reduce the number of people it executes to "an extremely small number", a top court official says.
JULY 28, 2009JapanDEATH PENALTYJAPAN: THREE EXECUTED FOR MULTIPLE MURDERS
Japan hanged three inmates convicted of multiple murders including a Chinese national
- 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 PENALTYCHINA: 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.