China court official insists organ donation by executed prisoners strictly regulated
China uses the same strict organ donation procedures when accepting organs from executed criminals as any other organ donations, an anonymous senior Chinese Supreme Court official told the state Xinhua News Agency on Tuesday. The court official...
China mulls oversight agency for organ transplant system involving prisoners
China's State Council is considering a draft resolution that would establish a national agency to regulate organ transplants in the wake of international criticism over Chinese organ transplant practices. Chinese health officials have admitted that the majority...
China urged to detail organ harvesting from executed prisoners after admission
Humans Right Watch urged the Chinese government Sunday to be more transparent about its practice of removing transplant organs from executed prisoners after Vice Minister of Health Huang Jiefu admitted for the first time...
China denies rampant black market for executed prisoners' organs
Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang has denied a BBC report that human organs were being routinely taken from executed prisoners and sold to foreigners, saying that the donors must first give written consent to...
China bans international use of corpses in effort to end illegal organ trade
The Chinese Ministry of Health has approved new regulations governing the use and international transport of corpses in an attempt to crackdown on the illegal trade of organs. China has been criticized [BTS press release,...
JURIST Guest Columnist A. John Radsan of William Mitchell College of Law, president of the Iranian-American Bar Association, says that while the silence of Iranian-Americans in the midst of rising tensions between the US and Iran may have been benign...
China dismisses reports of harvested organs from executed prisoners
China responded Thursday to criticism from the British Transplantation Society , which accused the country of harvesting and selling the organs of executed Chinese prisoners, by saying that similar practices had been used on patients...
The Chinese Ministry of Health announced Tuesday that it will ban the sale of human organs in an effort to stem a rising black market trade for organs of executed prisoners. The Ministry...
The Argentinean Congress passed a law Wednesday making all Argentinean citizens potential organ donors unless they specifically reject that status. Argentine President Nestor Kirchner first proposed the bill to his Congress last year;...
Indiana governor Mitch Daniels refused to grant clemency or a 90-day stay of execution for Gregory Scott Johnson, a convicted murderer who hoped to give his kidney and liver...
