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http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-4-6/27628.html

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"The China Information Center in the U.S. quoted some hospital personnel who disclosed that taking kidneys and livers from executed prisoners for use in transplantation has always been an ÔÇ£open secretÔÇØ within the hospital. If the hospitals depended solely on voluntary organ donations and did not obtain organs from prisoners, the number of organs available for transplant would fall far short of the demand. Although Chinese law prohibits transplanting organs from condemned prisoners, the report says that the hospitals work in tandem with the local judicial departments.

In recent years, relatives of some executed prisoners have been suing the hospitals for illegal use of their relativeÔÇÖs organs. In June 2001, Wang Guoqi, a doctor at the Burn Unit of the Tianjin Paramilitary Police General Brigade Hospital before moving to the U.S., testified before Congress that he had removed corneas and skin from recently executed prisoners on at least 100 occasions. He said that he had also witnessed other doctors from the hospital selecting organs from prisonerÔÇÖs bodies and later selling them for profit. Afterwards, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said that Dr. WangÔÇÖs testimony slandered China. Nevertheless, a series of facts has proven that some of the organs transplanted in China were indeed taken from recently executed prisoners.

Zeng Xianzi, a wealthy Hong Kong merchant and member of the Standing Committee of the National PeopleÔÇÖs Congress, received a kidney transplant six years ago at the Guangzhou Zhongshan UniversityÔÇÖs first hospital. The kidney that he received was taken from the body of an executed prisoner ÔÇö but for ÔÇ£sensitive political reasons,ÔÇØ nobody dared to make the public aware of this incident

Last September, Fu Biao, a renowned actor in Mainland China, underwent a successful liver transplant ÔÇô the liver he received was from the body of an executed Shandong prisoner. The Laogai Research Foundation in the U.S. noted that while the transplant was successful, nobody in China questioned the legality of removing the liver without consent."

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