China 2005
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on China in 2005
- MAY 13, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. COURT ORDERS EXECUTION OF DRUG TRAFFICKER, LIFE SENTENCES FOR MULES
Chengdu City Intermediate People's Court, pronounced the execution of Tang Mei, a female drug trafficker.
- MAY 12, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. US SENATOR MULLS SANCTIONS AGAINST CHINA OVER NORTH KOREA REFUGEE CRISIS
Republican US Senator Sam Brownback threatened to seek sanctions against China if it did not stop turning back refugees from North Korea who faced persecution and possible execution at home.
- MAY 7, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HEROIN TRAFFICKING
three convicted drug traffickers were sentenced to death in southwestern China's Sichuan province, while two accomplices were given long prison terms, the Chengdu Commercial Daily said.
- MAY 1, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
in May 2005, chinese authorities reportedly detained hundreds...
In May 2005, authorities reportedly detained hundreds of house church members from different groups in Jilin Province. In June authorities reportedly held approximately 100 pastors at Henan Province's Qi County detention center after detaining them at rel
- APRIL 27, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. THREE MEN EXECUTED IN BEIJING FOR MURDER
three men were executed in Beijing as a result of three separate murder cases, the Supreme People's Court reported.
- APRIL 26, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. NEW WAVE OF ARRESTS AGAINST FALUN GONG
in the largest campaign since 1999, police have made massive arrests across the country in an operation against Falun Gong followers, especially in the provinces of Shandong, Jiangxi, Sichuan, and Inner Mongolia, this according to Falun Gong sources.
- APRIL 26, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. FORMER LEGISLATOR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, FRAUD
Sang Yuechun, a former Chinese legislator, was sentenced to death for rape, embezzling public funds, defrauding banks, possessing guns and leading criminal gangs, the government said.
- APRIL 25, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. NINE GANG MEMBERS EXECUTED IN XUCHANG AFTER DEATH PENALTY UPHELD
nine members of a gang were executed after a high court upheld the death sentences handed down to them during an earlier local trial in China's Henan province.
- APRIL 25, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. JURIES GIVEN BIGGER SAY IN REACHING VERDICTS
juries will help reach verdicts in criminal and civil court cases in China, the China Daily reported, as the country sought to strengthen its arbitrary legal system.
- APRIL 21, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. WEN SAYS COUNTRY WORKING HARD TO RATIFY UN RIGHTS CONVENTION
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao insisted his country had made progress on improving its human rights record and said Beijing was working towards ratifying a UN convention on the issue.
- APRIL 20, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA. DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR CHINESE NATIONAL
the Malysian Court of Appeal reaffirmed a 2002 High Court ruling sentencing Chan King Yu, a Chinese national, to death for drug trafficking. Judge Datuk Gopal Sri Ram, in giving the court's unanimous decision, said the appellate court was satisfied that t
- APRIL 20, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
China voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
- APRIL 20, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
FIVE PEOPLE TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
in its initial trial, the Xiangtan Intermediate People's Court, sentenced to death Fang Lanying, a Jilin woman, Duan Mingyou, Tan Xinsheng, Peng Jun and Song Haibo after convicting them of drug trafficking.
- APRIL 18, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH REPRIEVE OVER NANHAI LOAN FRAUD CASE
in its initial trial, the Foshan Intermediate People's Court, sentenced Lin Yuhang, former president of the Industrial and Commercial Bank, Nanhai Sub-branch, to death with reprieve and six others to sentences ranging from 12 years imprisonment to life.
- APRIL 14, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
NORTH KOREA. COUNTRY MUST COOPERATE TO IMPROVE 'ABYSMAL' RECORD, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged North Korea to cooperate with the UN to improve its "abysmal" human rights record and called on China to stop sending refugees back to the Stalinist country.
- APRIL 13, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. COURT BANS EXTORTED EVIDENCE
a Chinese court ruled evidence obtained through police torture and threats as inadmissible.
- APRIL 12, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. COUNTRY ACCUSED OF CRUSHING CAMPAIGN AGAINST MUSLIM UIGHURS
China was directing a crushing campaign of religious repression against Muslim Uighurs in the name of anti-separatism and counter-terrorism, a report by Human Rights Watch and Human Rights in China said.
- APRIL 12, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
FORMER POLICE CHIEF AND OTHERS TO DEATH
Guangan City Intermediate People's Court, sentenced Xiong Qiang, Wang Bo, Li Yong and Cha Wanqing to death and sentenced Zhang Jingsong and Jiang Chunlin to death with reprieve. Yang Zhiquan and nine others were sentenced to life imprisonment.
- APRIL 11, 2005CanadaDEATH PENALTY
CANADA. COURT AGAIN REJECTS REFUGEE STATUS FOR CHINESE FUGITIVE
the federal appeals court in British Columbia province, Canada, affirmed a lower court's February 2004 decision to refuse refugee status refused to Lai Changxing, a Chinese man considered China's most wanted fugitive.
- APRIL 9, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. PUBLIC OUTCRY GROWING OVER PUNISHMENT, TORTURE OF SUSPECTS
it was reported that an unusual heated public debate had engulfed China over the wrongful conviction of a man for murder.
- APRIL 9, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. DALAI LAMA CALLS FOR ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama called for the abolition of the death penalty. On the second day of a visit to Japan which had been condemned by China, the Dalai Lama told a crowd of hundreds in Tokyo that criminals should be treated with “
- APRIL 8, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. TWO MEN PUT TO DEATH FOR CASH VAN HEIST
Yang Chao, 22, and Sun Feng, 25, were executed after a show trial for killing a cash transport vehicle escort and injuring three others during a 2004 robbery in Panshi in China’s Jilin Province.
- APRIL 7, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
DEATH SENTENCE WITH REPRIEVE IN GUN MAKING AND TRAFFICKING CASE
a court in Haikou, sentenced Li Pingsheng, 30, to death with two years reprieve for making and trafficking 33 guns. Li refitted and produced revolvers and other types of pistols for illegal profits.
- APRIL 6, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
DEATH SENTENCE UPHOLDED FOR FORMER PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION GROUP DIRECTOR
the Liaoning Provincial Higher People's Court ‘recently’ upheld the death sentence passed to Xia Renfan, 56-year-old former president of Shenyang Passenger Transportation Group Co, for corruption, embezzlement of public funds and bribery.
- APRIL 5, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. COUNTRY EXECUTES NINE TIMES MORE PEOPLE THAN REST OF WORLD, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
China accounted for about 90 percent of the 3,797 legally sanctioned executions in 25 countries across the world in 2004, the human rights group Amnesty International said, warning that most of those executed did not have fair trials.
- APRIL 4, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. TIBET COURT GIVES DEATH SENTENCE WITH REPRIEVE FOR FUR AND SKIN SMUGGLING OF ENDANGERED SPECIES
the Lhasa City Intermediate People's Court sentenced three people to death with reprieve for smuggling the skins of 1,393 endangered species including the skins of Bangladesh tigers and 581 leopards.
- MARCH 31, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. TOP GUANGZHOU HOSPITAL DOES ROARING TRADE IN EXECUTED PRISONER ORGANS, EDITORIAL
it was reported that the No. 1 and No. 3 Hospitals affiliated to the prestigious Sun Yat-sen University in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou was carrying out a lucrative trade in liver transplants using organs harvested from executed convicts.
- MARCH 30, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT. CHINA AND UNITED STATES URGED TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament voted in favour of the 2004 Annual Report on Human Rights. Simon Coveney MEP EPP-ED presented the report to the Committee as Rapporteur.
- MARCH 24, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
there are several aspects of particular concern in China...
there are several aspects of particular concern in China...
- MARCH 23, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. SERIAL KILLER CONFESSES TO UP TO 45 MURDERS, DESERVES TO DIE, LAWYER
Wang Qiang, an accused serial killer in north-eastern China's Liaoning province, confessed to killing up to 45 people and deserves to be sentenced to death for his lack of remorse, his lawyer said.