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Organ Harvesting In China Prison Goes High Tech

Loaded on Sept. 15, 2009 by Gary Hunter published in Prison Legal News September, 2009, page 35
Filed under: Medical Experiments/Exploitation, Transplants, International, Prisoners-International. Location: China.
China’s Ministry of Health currently employs several teams of specialized doctors to harvest organs from condemned prisoners. When a prisoner is scheduled to die selected teams are sent to China’s Changi Prison depending upon which organs are to be harvested.

Fifteen doctors compose the renal transplant team which harvests the ...

 

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