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


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