China 2001
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on China in 2001
- JUNE 24, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Media reported that 18 people in Chongqing had been...
Media reported that 18 people in Chongqing had been executed for drug trafficking
- JUNE 23, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Guangzhou Railway Communications Court, Guangdong Province,...
Guangzhou Railway Communications Court, Guangdong Province, openly ordered the execution of Li Yougao and six others for drugs crimes
- JUNE 23, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Legal Daily reported that 10 people were executed...
The Legal Daily reported that 10 people were executed after being sentenced at a mass rally in the southwestern city of Chengdu on drug-related crimes
- JUNE 23, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Sichuan Meishan city completed the 4-day trial of a...
Sichuan Meishan city completed the 4-day trial of a robbery case of an "exceptionally large" criminal gang of 21 members and passed death sentences on 11 suspects, including Min Yongjun and Zeng Wenqing
- JUNE 22, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In Shantou, a port city in Guangdong province, seven...
In Shantou, a port city in Guangdong province, seven people were executed for a variety of crimes including murder and robbery
- JUNE 22, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Baoji Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Shaanxi...
Baoji Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Shaanxi Province, sentenced to death Xu Baosheng and Xia Jialing, managers of Baoji Finance Security Company for embezzlement of public funds and accepting bribes
- JUNE 22, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wuzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced Hong Kong...
Wuzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced Hong Kong businessman Pan Wensheng to death with two years stay of execution, and Wuzhou resident Luo Yujun to life imprisonment, both on charges of drug trafficking
- JUNE 21, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Tianjin Municipal Number Two Intermediate People's...
Tianjin Municipal Number Two Intermediate People's Court sentenced to death Deng Chenhui for illegally obtaining insurance funds
- JUNE 21, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The judicial and public security departments of Jieyang...
The judicial and public security departments of Jieyang city and Jiexi county jointly held a public rally to announce the verdicts for several alleged criminals
- JUNE 20, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Police condemned to death nine drug dealers caught...
Police condemned to death nine drug dealers caught with as little as two ounces of heroin in front of 10,000 spectators at a sports stadium in south China's Nanning City
- JUNE 19, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Anti-drug authorities in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous...
Anti-drug authorities in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region held a grand gathering in front of an audience of 10,000 who witnessed the burning of 31 kg of drugs of various kinds
- JUNE 19, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Hubei Daily reported that twenty convicts, including...
The Hubei Daily reported that twenty convicts, including murderers, were executed in Wuhan after a public sentencing rally attended by thousands of spectators
- JUNE 14, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Intermediate People's Courts of Sichuan's Meishan...
The Intermediate People's Courts of Sichuan's Meishan and Nanchong cities, sentenced to death Fang Ji and Lo Xiaolin, the ringleaders of two criminal organizations headed by which operated like criminal syndicates
- JUNE 13, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A delegation of the European Parliament PES Group visited...
A delegation of the European Parliament PES Group visited China at the end of May, on the invitation of the Communist Party and the Chinese Government
- JUNE 13, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The leader of a grave-robbing gang that blasted its...
The leader of a grave-robbing gang that blasted its way into a 2,000-year-old tomb was sentenced to death by a Henan court
- JUNE 13, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Eight members of the largest-ever organised crime ring...
Eight members of the largest-ever organised crime ring in Gansu province were put to death
- JUNE 13, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Gansu Provincial Higher People's Court maintained the...
Gansu Provincial Higher People's Court maintained the original jurisdiction and ordered the execution of "principal gangsters", Li Jie, Li Hui and six other gangsters including Cui Zhibiao and Ding Li
- JUNE 12, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese industrial trainee was sentenced to death...
A Chinese industrial trainee was sentenced to death by an appellate court in Seoul for two counts of murder and eight counts of robbery
- JUNE 12, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Fuzhou (Fujian Province) Municipal Intermediate People's...
Fuzhou (Fujian Province) Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Zheng Ping, the female director of the Fuqing Customs Office, to death for accepting bribes of 898,000 yuan, 4,000 Hong Kong dollars and 89,000 yuan worth of valuables
- JUNE 12, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China, which executes more people each year than any...
China, which executes more people each year than any another country, was restrained in its reaction to America's execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh on June 11
- JUNE 11, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China's highest court and prosecutor's office have...
China's highest court and prosecutor's office have issued a legal interpretation permitting use of the death penalty and harsh anti-subversion laws to punish followers of the banned Falun Gong, in a decision that may signal a new round of trials of group
- JUNE 10, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In a nationwide order to local law-enforcement agencies...
In a nationwide order to local law-enforcement agencies the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate broadly reinterpret murder and subversion statutes for use in prosecution of Falun Gong adherents
- JUNE 10, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Foshan Intermediate People's Court, sentenced to...
The Foshan Intermediate People's Court, sentenced to death five out of the 15 members of a gang convicted of running drug laboratories and selling more than 100,000 tablets of Ecstasy in Guangdong
- JUNE 8, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Swedish Presidency of the EU, represented by Council...
The Swedish Presidency of the EU, represented by Council President Anna Lindh, outlined, during the meeting with the head of Chinese diplomacy Tang Jiaxuan in Beijing , the Union's grievances - torture, death penalty, police brutality, barriers to freedom
- JUNE 7, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty criminals were shot in Xian, Shaanxi province,...
Twenty criminals were shot in Xian, Shaanxi province, as part of the Strike Hard campaign, which has seen more than 1,000 executed in two months
- JUNE 6, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wuhan Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Hubei...
Wuhan Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Hubei Province, sentenced to death Hu Shan, director of the post office customs unit, and sentenced to death with a reprieve Xu Guoyan , chief of the financial section of Wuhan customs
- JUNE 6, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Bose Prefectural Intermediate People's Court held a...
Bose Prefectural Intermediate People's Court held a public rally to sentence to death the three "triad" leaders Ding Xu, Lu Zhongling and Huang Jie
- JUNE 5, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty-one convicted criminals were executed in a single...
Twenty-one convicted criminals were executed in a single day in the in the central Chinese city of Chongqing
- JUNE 4, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Pingdingshan City Court pronounced publicly the...
The Pingdingshan City Court pronounced publicly the sentences on a 40-strong criminal syndicate
- JUNE 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The regional Higher People 's Court confirmed the death...
The regional Higher People 's Court confirmed the death sentence handed down to the former police chief of Liuzhou city in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region