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
- NOVEMBER 21, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
COURT UPHOLDS SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE IN S CHINA
the Higher People's Court in south China's Guangdong Province upheld a suspended death sentence for a mentally ill man who murdered four family members and an employee with a hammer.
- NOVEMBER 19, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: WOMAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
a woman was sentenced to death by the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court in China for murdering two old men at her home in 2006.
- NOVEMBER 16, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DRUG KINGPIN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN BEIJING
a drug kingpin was sentenced to death in Beijing, China, in the largest drug-manufacturing case ever busted in the capital.
- NOVEMBER 15, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR COMPANY OFFICIAL OVER GRAFT
a Chinese court upheld a death penalty for a highway construction company manager who grafted and embezzled more than 110 million yuan (US$14.8 million).
- NOVEMBER 14, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
FORMER DIPLOMAT SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHINA, SANKEI REPORTS
a former Chinese diplomat who served in Japan until 2001 was sentenced to death in China on charges he provided military information to a Japanese national, the Sankei newspaper reported from Beijing
- NOVEMBER 12, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. SEPARATISTS FACE DEATH PENALTY
A Chinese court has sentenced six “terrorists” to death or life imprisonment for
- NOVEMBER 1, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF COP
in China, a Beijing court sentenced two cousins from Henan Province to death for murdering a police officer. Zhang Xinlei, 24, and Zhang Xinliang, 35, were convicted in Beijing No 1 People's Court of killing Tang Chengwen, 39, a police officer in Beijing'
- OCTOBER 23, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR JAPANESE NATIONAL
CHINESE COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR JAPANESE NATIONAL
- OCTOBER 9, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
HRW. CHINA SHOULD ISSUE MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS BEFORE OLYMPICS
China should impose a moratorium on all executions as a goodwill gesture before
- OCTOBER 9, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. ORGANS FROM DEATH ROW INMATES ONLY FOR FAMILY
China will no longer transplant organs from executed prisoners except for their immediate
- OCTOBER 4, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
NORTHERN IRELAND. KILLER FACES EXECUTION IF DEPORTED ARGUES QC
a Chinese man who stabbed a fellow illegal immigrant to death in south Belfast,
- OCTOBER 2, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR TORTURING EX-GIRLFRIEND
a man from northwest China's Shaanxi Province was sentenced to death with a two year reprieve and deprived of his political rights for life for torturing and attempting to murder his ex-girlfriend.