China 2007
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on China in 2007
- DECEMBER 31, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR TAKING BRIBES
Wang Zheng, the former deputy head of Yuzhong District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality...
- DECEMBER 30, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR 8 MURDERS
a villager from northwest China's Gansu Province was sentenced to death for a series of murders that included six people in his village and a taxi driver and a prostitute elsewhere in the province.
- DECEMBER 28, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
FORMER EAST CHINA PROVINCE VICE-GOVERNOR SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH TWO-YEAR REPRIEVE
a local court of east China's Shandong Province handed down a death penalty with a two-year reprieve to He Minxu...
- DECEMBER 27, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MULTIPLE MURDER IN GUIZHOU
a man was sentenced to death for murdering a county head, four of his relatives and a nursemaid in southwest China's Guizhou Province.
- DECEMBER 20, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CORRUPT CHINA PROSECUTOR GETS SUSPENDED DEATH PENALTY
a Chinese court handed down a suspended death sentence to a former top prosecutor...
- DECEMBER 20, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
DEATH SENTENCE GETS SUSPENDED IN SHANGHAI CASE
in China, the former chairman of one of Shanghai's biggest industrial companies...
- DECEMBER 20, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Zhou Liji, who had served time for fraud and larceny, was executed in China for drug trafficking, the Shanghai Daily said.
- DECEMBER 19, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHINA FOR MURDER
a government official and his two accomplices were sentenced to death in China for murder...
- DECEMBER 18, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE COUPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR FORCING PUPILS INTO PROSTITUTION
China's most wanted couple were sentenced to death in southwest China's Guizhou Province for forcing 23 girls...
- DECEMBER 18, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: SHANGHAI'S TOP CRIME BOSS EXECUTED
Li Bin, 41, the self-proclaimed "King of Shanghai's underworld" was executed after the Supreme Court...
- DECEMBER 18, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China voted against the Resolution on a Moratorium...
China voted against the Resolution on a Moratorium...
- DECEMBER 17, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA SENTENCES ONE TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
a gang of six people were given sentences ranging from death to 15 years in jail
- DECEMBER 17, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHINA
Xuan Xiong, a top fisheries official in southern China's Guangdong province was sentenced to death for the murder of a man that was to take over his job...
- DECEMBER 17, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA CHIEF SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING AMBITIOUS DEPUTY
a chief who killed his ambitious deputy in Guangdong Province in China was sentenced to death
- DECEMBER 11, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: VILLAGE HEAD GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
a village chief in central China's Henan Province was sentenced to death...
- DECEMBER 6, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE HIGHWAY EXECUTIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CORRUPTION
a transport executive accused of corruption involving a total of 50 million yuan (US$6.8 million) was sentenced to death in north eastern China, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
- DECEMBER 5, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR PAIR WHO KILLED EIGHT IN CRIME SPREE
two men were sentenced to death after going on a nationwide crime spree in which they killed eight people, including a two year old boy, state press said.
- DECEMBER 3, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN SENTENCED DEATH FOR BURNING PREGNANT GIRL
a man was sentenced to death by the Shenyang Intermediate People's Court in China for burning his pregnant girlfriend because the child she was carrying was a girl.
- DECEMBER 3, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH SENTENCES FOR PAIR WHO KILLED RIVAL
Li Shuangjian, a woman from Anhui Province in China, and a friend were sentenced to death...
- NOVEMBER 29, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. PENALTY GUIDELINES SET FOR FAKE DRUGS
a draft judicial interpretation spells out the circumstances in which life sentences or the death penalty can be
- NOVEMBER 26, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING GIRLS AS YOUNG AS 8
a court in Xiamen, a coastal city in east China's Fujian Province, sentenced a man to death for raping and sexually assaulting girls aged between eight and twelve.
- NOVEMBER 25, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: OFFICIAL SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
Zheng Guoliang, former deputy to the Anhui Provincial People's Congress in east China, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for drug smuggling and illegal gun possession, local sources confirmed
- NOVEMBER 23, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCES EXCEED IMMEDIATE EXECUTIONS FOR 1ST TIME
the number of suspended death sentences handed down this year in China
- NOVEMBER 22, 2007CanadaDEATH PENALTY
CAR SMUGGLING GANG LEADER GETS DEATH PENALTY
the leader of a smuggling ring was given the death penalty, suspended for two years...
- NOVEMBER 21, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
COURT UPHOLDS SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE IN S CHINA
the Higher People's Court in south China's Guangdong Province upheld a suspended death sentence for a mentally ill man who murdered four family members and an employee with a hammer.
- NOVEMBER 19, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: WOMAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
a woman was sentenced to death by the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court in China for murdering two old men at her home in 2006.
- NOVEMBER 16, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DRUG KINGPIN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN BEIJING
a drug kingpin was sentenced to death in Beijing, China, in the largest drug-manufacturing case ever busted in the capital.
- NOVEMBER 15, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR COMPANY OFFICIAL OVER GRAFT
a Chinese court upheld a death penalty for a highway construction company manager who grafted and embezzled more than 110 million yuan (US$14.8 million).
- NOVEMBER 14, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
FORMER DIPLOMAT SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHINA, SANKEI REPORTS
a former Chinese diplomat who served in Japan until 2001 was sentenced to death in China on charges he provided military information to a Japanese national, the Sankei newspaper reported from Beijing
- NOVEMBER 12, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. SEPARATISTS FACE DEATH PENALTY
A Chinese court has sentenced six “terrorists” to death or life imprisonment for