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
- JUNE 27, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. DEATH SENTENCE FINALISED FOR MAN IN MURDER-ROBBERY CASE
Japan's Supreme Court finalised a death sentence for a Chinese man by upholding a high court ruling on him over a murder-robbery on May 25...
- JUNE 27, 2006CanadaDEATH PENALTY
CANADIAN EXTRADITED FROM UZBEKISTAN FACES POSSIBLE DEATH PENALTY IN CHINA
Canadian citizen Huseyincan Celil was extradited from Uzbekistan to China where he may be executed for founding a political party to represent a minority ethnic group in Xinjiang province, Canada's foreign affairs spokeswoman Kim Girtel told AFP. Celil, 3
- JUNE 26, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. OILFIELD FIRM CHIEF SENTENCED TO DEATH
China sentenced to death Li Rongxing, the former president of a firm connected with the country's number-two oil field, for taking bribes and embezzling nearly 37 million yuan ($4.62 million).
- JUNE 25, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG MAKING IN NORTHWEST CHINA
two people were sentenced to death for manufacturing illegal drugs in northwest China.
- JUNE 21, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court, China, sentenced Shi Jianjian, 26, to death for robbery and murder.
- JUNE 15, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY FOR CORRUPTION - OFFICIAL
"According to data collected over the past decade, it is not pragmatic to execute officials who are convicted of corruption," the Hunan Province provincial organization deputy director, Wang Minggao, said.
- JUNE 9, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. FOUR EXECUTED FOR KILLING, ROBBERY
four young Chinese men were executed in the capital Beijing for robbery and murder. Yan Shusen, Wang Jianzhong, Zhao Qian and Sun Shizhong -- all peasants in their early 20s -- were executed for robbing a van driver before killing him in 2004.
- JUNE 9, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. WOMAN EXECUTED FOR KILLING NIECE
a court in China’s Yunnan Province executed a woman who drowned her niece.
- JUNE 7, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MEN EXECUTED FOR KILLED WOMAN
the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court executed Lu Shuangfu and Ren Jianhua for the murder of a woman in 2004.
- JUNE 6, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
when Liu Zhixiang was given a suspended death sentence in April 2006...
when Liu Zhixiang was given a suspended death sentence in April 2006...
- JUNE 6, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER OF BOSS’ FAMILY
a bank official was executed for killing his boss' family of three after a dispute in Gushi County in China’s Henan Province.
- JUNE 1, 2006CanadaDEATH PENALTY
CANADA. COURT DELAYS DEPORTATION OF CHINESE FUGITIVE LAI
Chinese fugitive Lai Changxing, the alleged kingpin of a multi-billion-dollar smuggling operation, will not be deported on June 2 as planned, Canada's Federal Court ruled.