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


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