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
- MAY 14, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: TWO GET DEATH PENALTY IN MURDER OF POLICEMAN IN SW.CHINA
two men in southwestern China's Yunnan Province received the death penalty for killing Li Hongzhuan, 30, a police officer, in conjunction with robbing and assaulting a woman on November 16, 2008
- MAY 7, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE OFFICIAL'S DRIVER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR US$38 MLN FRAUD
an official's driver in east China's Zhejiang Province was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for defrauding investors of 263 million yuan (US$38 million).
MAY 7, 2009Hong Kong SAR ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN GETS DEATH FOR DRUG OFFENCES
Hong Kong national Yuen Wai-ming was sentenced to death by the Shenzhen
- MAY 5, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH SENTENCE ON TIBETANS INHERENTLY FLAWED
expressing serious concern on the prospects of imminent execution of the two Tibetans sentenced to death without reprieve in Lhasa, China, on April 8, Human Rights Watch said that their trials and sentences suffered from a series of both substantive and p
- MAY 2, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: HIT MEN TO DIE FOR KILLING ADVISER
two men were sentenced to death for assassinating a top political adviser in Lianjiang city, Guangdong, China, over what police said was the official's failure to hold up his end of a bribery deal.
- APRIL 29, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN CONVICTED OF POLICE KILLING EXECUTED IN BEIJING
a man convicted of the killing of a Beijing police officer was executed by gunshot in China, according to the Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court. Zhang Xinlei, 24, was sentenced to death in November 2008 for killing Tang Chengwen, 39, in Mentougou d
- APRIL 29, 2009MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIAN’S EXECUTION IMMINENT IN CHINA
“Malaysian Ong Kim Fatt’s execution is taking place after all avenues to commute his sentence were exhausted,” said MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk Michael Chong
- APRIL 24, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA POST OFFICIAL GETS DEATH FOR STEALING $190 MLN
a southern China post office director was sentenced to death for stealing more than 1.3 billion yuan (US$190 million) to help pay her gambling debts, a local court said.
- APRIL 23, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: EX-GALAXY MANAGER LOSES APPEAL AGAINST DEATH PENALTY FOR STEALING
in China, a Beijing higher court rejected an appeal by a securities broker against his death sentence.
- APRIL 23, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA APPEALS TO CHINA FOR CLEMENCY
the Malaysian Foreign Ministry sent a clemency appeal for Malaysian Ong Kim Fatt who is on death row in China for drug trafficking, said its Deputy Minister Datuk Lee Chee Leong.
- APRIL 23, 2009NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: NIGERIAN EXECUTED FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
Nigerian national Chibuzor Vitus Ezekwem was executed in China after being found
APRIL 21, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: 3 SENTENCED OVER ARSON IN 2008 TIBET RIOTS
the Tibet Daily reported that a Chinese court sentenced a Tibetan girl to death with a two-year reprieve and two others to long jail terms for setting fires that allegedly killed six people in the Lhasa riot in March 2008.