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
- OCTOBER 28, 2008ChinaDEATH PENALTY
the National People's Congress ratified the extradition treaty with Portugal.
the National People's Congress ratified the extradition treaty with Portugal.
- OCTOBER 27, 2008ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. DEATH FOR COUPLE FOR KILLING LOVE RIVAL
in China, a Shanghai court sentenced a man to death for killing the ex-husband of his lover. The convict, identified as Wang, was also charged with dismembering the victim's body and dumping the head along the railway tracks between Shanghai and Jiangsu P
- OCTOBER 23, 2008ChinaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDAN WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SOUTH CHINA
the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court in southern China convicted Awor Ocer Lucy...
- OCTOBER 23, 2008ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: OLYMPICS CONSTRUCTION BOSS APPEALS DEATH SENTENCE
a former vice mayor of Beijing, China, in charge of Olympic construction, appealed against a suspended death sentence for talking millions of yuan in bribes, a Hong Kong-based rights group said.
- OCTOBER 23, 2008ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE POLICEMAN EXECUTED FOR BRUTAL KILLING
a policeman in central China's Henan Province was executed for killing a man by throwing him from the third storey of a police office building
OCTOBER 23, 2008ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINESE VICE MAYOR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TAKING BRIBES
the former vice mayor of a city in eastern China was sentenced to death for taking more than 100 million
- OCTOBER 20, 2008ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR POLICE KILLER
in China, a Shanghai court upheld the death penalty for Yang Jia, a jobless Beijing man who stormed into a Shanghai police bureau earlier this year and killed six officers
- OCTOBER 20, 2008ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: SUSPENDED DEATH PENALTY FOR SERIAL RAPE IN BEIJING
an unemployed man from northwest China was given a death penalty with a reprieve of two years after being found guilty of crimes including several rapes.
OCTOBER 19, 2008ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA. FORMER BEIJING VICE MAYOR GIVEN SUSPENDED DEATH PENALTY FOR BRIBERY
Beijing's former vice mayor Liu Zhihua was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking bribes,
- OCTOBER 15, 2008ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN AND EX-WIFE CONVICTED OF MURDER
a man in China was sentenced to death and his ex-wife handed a 15-year jail term for kidnapping and murdering a Taiwanese man, Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court said.
- OCTOBER 13, 2008ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN STANDS SECOND TRIAL, APPEALS DEATH PENALTY
Yang Jia, a jobless Beijing man who intruded into a Shanghai police bureau in China and allegedly killed six officers, stood on the second trial here...
- OCTOBER 13, 2008ChinaDEATH PENALTY
IN CHINA, A RARE PROTEST IN SUPPORT OF A DEATH ROW INMATE
Protesters staged a rare demonstration outside a Shanghai court in China in support of a jobless man who was appealing against his conviction for murdering six police officers.