Chinese medics killed death row inmates by taking hearts

Al Jazeera ^ | 6 Apr, 2022 | Erin Hale

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Hundreds of Chinese surgeons and medical personnel have been accused of killing death row prisoners by removing their hearts for transplant even before the inmates had been officially declared dead, in a new academic paper.

The findings, according to study co-author and PhD researcher Matthew Robertson, were that Chinese surgeons might have carried out a final coup de grâce in an execution process that began in front of a firing squad or through lethal injection. Even if the prisoner survived that trauma, removing vital organs would cause certain death.

China considers data on the death penalty a state secret, but it is thought to be “the world’s most prolific executioner“, according to Amnesty International, and while organ harvesting from prisoners is officially banned in China, the secrecy makes it difficult to know whether the practice is continuing.

A 2019 UK-based tribunal on forced organ harvesting in China concluded that “forced organ harvesting has been committed for years throughout China on a significant scale” and that most organs probably came from prisoners and practitioners of the banned Falun Gong religious movement.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I wasn’t defending the CCP. I was just pointing out that the CCP wasn’t using the definition of dead as we would.

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[sumuam]

I didn’t think you were defending them at all. That story I posted just came to mind.

Thirteen years ago, someone from China was busted in South Korea at an airport trying to sneak in vitamins made of fetal parts. This country has a lot of ghoulish things going on now as well.