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DURING 15 years of confinement in psychiatric institutions in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan, Dimitri Gerasimenko was starved and repeatedly beaten. The indignities did not end with his death five years ago at the age of 30.Staff at the ramshackle asylum 50 miles from Bishkek, the capital, have never told his mother Raisa, 65, how he died. All her attempts to retrieve his remains have been met with prevarication, compounding her grief. “First I was asked for money if I wanted the body back,” she said. “Then I was told Dimitri had been sent to a medical academy. When...

NEW YORK, May 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New York State Attorney General’s office has ordered the owners of a “plastinated” body display in New York to post signs at the entrance of the exhibit telling visitors that it is not possible to confirm whether the bodies displayed were those of executed Chinese prisoners who may have been victims of torture. The order came last Thursday after the company, Premier Exhibitions, admitted it had no way of knowing the exact origin of the bodies, all of which were obtained in China, a country that executes more of its citizens...

"Bodies...the Exhibition" has drawn thousands to the Cincinnati Museum Center, but now the company behind it is part of an investigation. The New York Attorney General's Office tells Local 12, its looking into possible misrepresentations concerning how some of those human bodies were obtained in China. Museum center officials say they're approaching 40,000 tickets sold in just 15 days. Now, the company profiting from the bodies is now under investigation. The New York State Attorney General's Office has issued subpoenas for organizers at Premier Exhibitions Incorporated. That's the same company the museum center is using to put bodies on display...

(NEW YORK) — The doctor behind the "Body Worlds" exhibits that show cadavers in different poses says he has stopped using bodies from China for fear that some of them may be executed prisoners, ABC News reported on Friday. Dr. Gunther von Hagens told ABC's "20/20" that he had to destroy some bodies he had received from China because they had injuries that made him suspect they were execution victims. The doctor invented a liquid plastic process that preserves bodies. He has put many of them on display in museum exhibits that show them in poses like playing poker or...

Channel 4 is to broadcast a documentary showing a human corpse being hung on a cross to depict Christ's suffering. Anatomist Gunther von Hagens will use a real body to show how people died when crucified in the 90-minute film.

It's easy to see why the Science Museum's new show -- "Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies" -- is drawing record crowds. The "plastinated" human cadavers and body parts produce gasps of wonder at the body's intricate complexity. . . .As I walked through the show this week, I could see how visitors might find its "whole-body specimens" beautiful in a strange way. They are lean and vigorous -- physically perfect in a way few museum-goers seemed to be. Many of the "plastinates" draw double takes: the female archer, who looks like the goddess of the hunt,...

Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist who exhibits preserved human corpses after injecting them with a plastic resin, has launched a nationwide body pick-up service to provide him with a "sufficient number" of specimens. The controversial scientist announced the introduction of the service just as he is about to open a body factory in the east German town of Guben. Mr von Hagens said the pick-up service would be free to those who had made a written pledge to donate their bodies while still alive, and would "make it possible [for relatives] to mourn without having to worry about burial...

Exposing Shocking Horrors Inside Sujiatun Concentration Camp By Ji Da Epoch Times Staff Mar 11, 2006 A reporter from China who worked for a Japanese television news agency and specialized in Chinese news recently escaped to the United States after being wanted in China for reporting on controversial issues. (The Epoch Times) High-res image (1200 x 900 px, 72 dpi) [ Warning: graphic photos below ] Falun Gong Practitioners a Cheap Source of Black Market Organs In recent years, international organ buying and selling markets have had extreme shortages. As the world's most populous country with the death penalty, China...

The German professor behind November's (UK) public autopsy says he wants to put on show corpses having sex. Gunther von Hagens wants to make it part of his controversial Body Worlds exhibition. He told Sky News Online: "I am really thinking of it, but only if the body donors agreed during their lifetime and if the final specimen is highly educational." He added: "Leonardo da Vinci painted a couple having sex. "Sex is a very, very important but dangerous act, especially in the time of Aids. We should know as much as possible about what is going on, how intimate...