Organ sales ‘thriving’ in China – BBC News

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Despite using a sometimes controversial technique of secretly filming a Tianjin hospital, a good story on China’s booming business of trading and exporting convicts’ organs, from BBC News (video here or here):

The sale of organs taken from executed prisoners appears to be thriving in China, an undercover investigation by the BBC has found.

The BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes visited No 1 Central Hospital in Tianjin, ostensibly seeking a liver for his sick father. Officials there told him that a matching liver could be available in three weeks.

In March, China’s foreign ministry admitted that organs from prisoners were used, but said that it was only in “a very few cases”.

Also see a trail of CDT’s coverage of organ harvesting

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