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criminal law
HSK 7-9
criminal; penal
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punishment / penalty / sentence / torture / corporal punishment
to sentence (to prison etc)
death penalty; capital punishment
(law) to determine the sentence
criminal investigation
sentence / penalty / punishment
prison term
to detain as criminal / criminal detention / abbr. for 刑事拘留
cruelty; torture
to sentence / to condemn
to serve a prison sentence
to carry out a (death) sentence / execution
prison sentence
criminal police (abbr. for 刑事警察)
interrogation under torture / inquisition
to reduce penalty / shortened or commuted (judicial) sentence
execution ground
punishment equipment / torture instrument
crime and punishment / penalty for a crime
beaten / tortured / executed
to execute by hanging
suspended sentence / probation
strict law / cruel punishment / to carry out cruel law rigorously
supreme penalty / execution
criminal law
to torture sb using electricity / electrocution (capital punishment)
castration (archaic punishment)
caning (corporal punishment)
xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害 / the designation for a punishment
criminal court (abbr. for 刑事法庭)
imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead , cutting off the nose , amputation of one or both feet , castration 宮|宫, execution 大辟 / Han dynasty onwards: whipping , beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns , forced labor , exile or banishment , capital punishment
corporal punishment (such as castration or amputation)
torture / cruel corporal punishment
facing execution
corporal punishment consisting of carving and inking characters on the victim's forehead
whipping with bamboo strips (as corporal punishment)
torture / corporal punishment (traditionally involving mutilation or amputation)
severe punishment / worst punishment / to torture
criminal case
Ministry of Justice (in imperial China)
indiscriminate punishment
exile (as form of punishment)
execution by fire / burning at the stake
to be punished
beating with wooden staves (as corporal punishment)
life imprisonment
corporal punishment
torture chamber
(literary) corporal punishment or execution
criminal to be executed / to execute a criminal
to extort confession by torture
Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization)
removal of the kneecaps (punishment)
water-boarding (torture)
person being executed / victim of corporal punishment / person serving a sentence
Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB)
Xingtian, headless giant hero of Chinese mythology decapitated by the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝
criminal police / member of the criminal police
Criminal Investigation Bureau
gibbet / hanging post
rod used for flogging offenders
a criminal
limited term of imprisonment (i.e. anything less than life imprisonment)
criminal court
castration (a form of punishment during the Han period)
criminal procedure
legal net / the long arm of the law
criminal procedure / abbr. for 刑事訴訟法|刑事诉讼法
International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)
(law) deprivation of freedom
to sentence (a criminal)
criminal court / judiciary court
criminal offense
to complete a prison sentence
crucifiction
Europol (European Police Office)
firing squad
to detain as criminal / criminal detention
criminal court
xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害
office of punishment / torture chamber (esp. unofficial)
to be forced to grind grain as a punishment (old)
to humiliate by torture
UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988)
torture / interrogation by torture
squeezing the fingers between sticks (old form of torture)
deferred death sentence / abbr. to 死緩|死缓
water-boarding, interrogation technique used by CIA
stoning (execution method)
torture and cruel treatment


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