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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in China. It is applicable to offenses ranging from murder to drug trafficking. [1] Executions are carried out by lethal injection or by shooting. [2][3][4] A survey conducted by The New York Times in 2014 found the death penalty retained widespread support in Chinese society. [5]
BEIJING (Reuters) -Australian writer and pro-democracy blogger Yang Hengjun was handed a suspended death sentence by a Beijing court on Monday, in what human rights advocates say is an unusually ...
Seriously endangering public safety, broadly construed. Sabotaging electricity. Sabotaging gas, fuel, petroleum, or other flammables or explosives. Hijacking aircraft. Illegal possession, transport or selling of explosives or firearms. Illegally manufacturing, selling, transporting or storing hazardous materials.
China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, ... Taiwan warns against travel to China after execution threat. June 27, 2024 at 4:09 AM. ... Liang, making the ...
t. e. Death with reprieve (Chinese: 死刑缓期执行; pinyin: sǐxíng huǎnqī zhíxíng, abbr: 死缓; 死緩; Sǐhuǎn) is a criminal punishment found in chapter 5 (death penalty), sections 48, 50 and 51 of the criminal law of the People's Republic of China. It is a two-year suspended sentence where the execution is only carried out if the ...
Elke Tsang Kai-mong (simplified Chinese: 张凯梦; traditional Chinese: 張凱夢; pinyin: Zhāng Kǎimèng; Wade–Giles: Chang1 K'ai3-meng4) was a 30 year old female Hongkonger who was executed in Singapore after being charged and found guilty with smuggling over 4 kg of diamorphine into the country. Tsang, the daughter of a high-ranking ...
A court in central China said on Friday a Chinese kindergarten teacher who had poisoned 25 of her students, killing one, has been executed. A notice posted outside the No. 1 Intermediate Court in ...
Since 2014, the Chinese government has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang which has often been characterized as persecution or as genocide. There have been reports of mass arbitrary arrests and detention, torture, mass surveillance, cultural and religious persecution ...