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
- DECEMBER 6, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. DEATH FOR WOMAN WHO STABBED LOVER TO DEATH
the shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Liao Yan...
DECEMBER 6, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINESE SECRETLY EXECUTED AFTER PROTEST
a court in southwestern China has secretly executed a man who took part in an environmental protest which turned into a riot, a lawyer and a family member said. Three others were jailed, one of them for life, they said.
- DECEMBER 4, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ANHUI FOR SERIAL RAPE
Shi Jidong, a farmer from Dingyuan, a county in east China's Anhui Province, was sentenced to death after being convicted of raping three girls and attempting to rape six more.
- DECEMBER 1, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. STATE EXECUTES MAN FOR MURDERS
Zhang Xianguang, 39, was executed immediately after a public trial in Shenyang...
- NOVEMBER 30, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH IN FATAL COUNTERFEIT LIQUOR CASE
the Higher People's Court in China’s Guangdong Province sentenced 27-year-old Cheng Caiming to death in the last instance for a counterfeit liquor scandal that left 14 people dead and 41 others injured.
- NOVEMBER 29, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HAMMER KILLINGS
the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Zhang Weiyi...
NOVEMBER 29, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA. THREE PROTESTANT LEADERS CONDEMNED WITHOUT PROOF EXECUTED IN SECRET
the leaders of a Protestant group “Three Grades of Servants”, condemned to death without proof, were executed in secret last week, according to the China Aid Association (CAA), a US-based non-governmental organisation that lobbies for religious freedom in
- NOVEMBER 27, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN CONVICTED OF STABBING 12 TO DEATH
Shi Yuejun, 35, was sentenced to death for stabbing 12 people to death and injured five in a six-day spree in Tonghua in northeast China's Jilin Province.
- NOVEMBER 24, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Qiao Ruqian...
- NOVEMBER 21, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA WILL NOT EXECUTE CANADIAN ACCUSED OF TERRORISM
Canada received assurances from Beijing that Huseyin Celil, 37...
- NOVEMBER 17, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. FOUR BROTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RUNNING CRIME GANG
four brothers who headed a north China organized crime gang were sentenced to death at the Hebei Provincial Higher People's Court.
NOVEMBER 17, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA ADMITS ORGANS FROM EXECUTED PRISONERS SOLD TO TOURISTS
China acknowledged the practice of "transplant tourism," in which the organs of executed prisoners are sold to foreigners, and said it wants to regulate the sale of kidneys, livers and other body parts.