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
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. SPC AMENDS DEATH SENTENCE RULES
the Supreme People's Court (SPC) of China amended its rules
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. SENIOR OFFICIAL EXECUTED FOR CORRUPTION
a senior official at the troubled Agricultural Bank of China was
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. SENIOR LAWMAKER EXECUTED FOR CAR BOMBING MISTRESS
A senior lawmaker and his accomplice, a local policeman, were executed in Jinan for killing the official's young mistress with a car bomb.
SEPTEMBER 3, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA DEATH SENTENCES AT TEN-YEAR LOW: HIGH COURT JUSTICE
death sentences handed down by Chinese courts were at a ten-year low in 2006 and the trend continues in
- AUGUST 30, 2007NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA HANDS SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE TO NIGERIAN
a Chinese court has handed a Nigerian man a suspended death sentence, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Nigerian Obi Chinedu was arrested last year in the Central Asian border region of Xinjiang after he aroused suspicion when he dashed to the toilet
- AUGUST 28, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DRUG OFFICIAL'S DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD
the Higher People's Court of Beijing, China, rejected a former senior drug official's appeal and upheld his death sentence and two-year reprieve, the Beijing Evening News reported.
- AUGUST 21, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA TO APPLY DEATH PENALTY TO DESTROYERS OF POWER FACILITIES
China will apply the death penalty to those who damage electric power facilities, resulting in serious consequences.
- AUGUST 20, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES FOR TWO JAPANESE OVER DRUGS
a Chinese court upheld the death sentences of two Japanese men convicted of attempting to smuggle drugs from China to Japan in 2003, an official at the Japanese Consulate General in Shenyang said.
- AUGUST 19, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: TWO EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
two convicts were executed for drug trafficking in southwest China's Yunnan province, according to local sources.
- AUGUST 13, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zheng Hongbin, 35, a Chinese security guard...
Zheng Hongbin, 35, a Chinese security guard...
- AUGUST 9, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA BANK WORKERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RECORD HEIST
two bank workers were sentenced to death for China's largest ever bank theft...
- AUGUST 9, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA TWO GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER OF MISTRESS
two men were sentenced to death by the Intermediate People's Court of Zibo in China. Duan Yihe...