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China admits to harvesting organs from executed prisoners

China admits that 65% of Organ "Donations" Come from Death Row Prisoners

In a rare admission of the extent to which this takes place, China Daily - citing unnamed experts - said on Wednesday that more than 65% of organ donations come from death row prisoners.

China executes more people than any other country. Amnesty International said at least 1,718 people were given the death penalty in 2008.

Many of the executed are Falun Gong, a new religion in China that uses  physical exercise much like qigong   to cultivate the qualities if  truthfulness, compassion and forbearance.    In the materialistic culture of China, Falun Gong may have attracted as many as 70 million adherents.  When several thousand appeared on day in 1999 in a silent protest ,  they terrified with government who arrested them all and  began an all-out persecution of the sect.

The China Daily quoted Vice-Health Minister Huang Jiefu as saying that condemned prisoners were "definitely not a proper source for organ transplants".

The new scheme is therefore designed to reduce the reliance on death row inmates, as well as regulating the industry by combating the illegal trafficking of organs.

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Some of the corpses are sold to be skinned and then displayed in the  Bodies exhibition touring the country

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