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
- APRIL 13, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY TO BE STRICTLY CONTROLLED AND PRUDENTLY APPLIED IN CHINA
the death penalty will be strictly controlled and prudently applied, said the National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2009-2010) released by the Information Office of China's State Council.
- APRIL 10, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
MALAWIAN DRUG TRAFFICKER GETS SUSPENDED DEATH PENALTY IN S CHINA CITY
a Malawian man received the death penalty with a two-year reprieve for trafficking more than 1,140 grams of heroin into China. The Intermediate People's Court of Guilin, a city in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, handed down the sentence. M
- APRIL 9, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: OVERTURN DEATH SENTENCES FOR TIBET PROTESTERS
Amnesty International condemned a decision by a court in Lhasa to hand down death sentences to two Tibetans accused of starting fatal fires in Lhasa during protests in March 2008.
APRIL 9, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: TWO UYGURS EXECUTED OVER DEADLY ATTACK
China executed two Uygurs in the restive northwestern Xinjiang region for a ''terrorist''
- APRIL 8, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: FOUR TIBETANS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR STARTING FIRES DURING UNREST IN LHASA
the Lhasa Municipal Intermediate People’s Court sentenced two Tibetans to death and two to death with a two-year reprieve for their role in the unrest in Lhasa in March 2008.
- APRIL 8, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH ROW MALAYSIAN IN CHINA FACES EXECUTION
a Malaysian man caught in Xiamen, China with 1.5kg of heroin in 2007 is to be executed in the People's Republic by a firing squad.
- APRIL 2, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: INDIAN ON CHINESE DEATH ROW GETS REPRIEVE
an Indian man found guilty in China of possessing narcotics had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
- MARCH 27, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN EXECUTED IN BEIJING FOR MURDER
the leader of a three-member gang was executed for robbery and murder in Beijing, China.
- MARCH 27, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Ugandan Foreign Affairs Minister, Sam Kutesa...
Ugandan Foreign Affairs Minister, Sam Kutesa...
MARCH 27, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: ABDUCTOR OF NINE BOYS EXECUTED BY LETHAL INJECTION
The man convicted of leading a gang that abducted nine boys in central China's Henan
- MARCH 26, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA MILK SCANDAL TERMS UPHELD
A court in north China's Hebei Province upheld two death sentences, a suspended death verdict and other convictions in the country's tainted milk scandal.
- MARCH 24, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
British newspaper the Independent ran a report about a dozen “death buses” in use
British newspaper the Independent ran a report about a dozen “death buses” in use