illegal organ transplants

China’s new policy on organ transplants retains the use of prisoners as an organ source, while pretending not to. It’s unclear whether the strategy will work.

China’s top transplant official seems to have announced—once again—that the country will stop using the organs harvested from executed prisoners. The record needs to be set straight.

A grass-roots movement that spans 5 continents and 53 countries: On Monday morning, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting presented to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva a petition that garnered almost 1.5 million signatures.

Until the vile commerce of organ pillaging ends in China completely, the international community must do all in their power to end complicity by enacting measures to combat international organ transplant abuse.

Long anticipated rules about how organs should be procured and allocated in China still don’t answer a few basic questions.

A prominent Chinese transplant official admitted recently that the authorities have for years used the organs of executed prisoners for transplant without gaining their consent.

Ostensibly, Bo Xilai, the former Politburo member facing trial, is only guilty of “bribery, corruption, and abuse of power,” but the story goes deeper than that.