CHINESE USING ORGANS FROM EXECUTED PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE WHO ARE NOT FORMALLY SENTENCED TO DEATH THROUGH THE COURTS FOR ANY CRIME, BUT WHO HELD IN ARBITRARY DETENTION, BLOOD-TESTED AND KILLED AS THEIR ORGANS ARE REQUIRED. XI JINPING U R NO GOOD. SHAME ON YOU. YOU MURDER. TOP CHINESE TRANSPLANT OFFICIAL REAFFIRMS USE OF PRISIONERS ORGANS by Matthew Robertson Epoch Times Staff Wang Haibo, one of the unofficial representatives to the world on Chinas organ transplant policies, recently told a well-known German journalist that the Chinese regime had no intention of announcing a schedule for weaning itself off the use of organs from executed prisioners. The question is, when can China solve the problem of the shortage of donor organs? I wish we could end it tomorow. But it require a process, he said in a radio program on ARD, the major German public broadcast network. Many things are beyond our control, he added. Therefore, we cannot announce any time schedule. The journalist, Ruth Kirchner, said that Wang agreed to the interview after long hesitation, because organ donation connected to the death penalty is a sensitive issue in China. Wang, director of the China Organ Transplant Response System Research Center of the Ministry of Health, would not say how many organs come from executed prisoners. Some outside groups suggest that there are 4,000 executions per year, though only a portion of those would yield organs viable for transplant. One of the major disputes that international Western medical groups have with the Chineses authorities is its pratice of harvesting the organs from executed prisoners. Many analysts also point to a more sinister source of prisoner organs: those come from executed prisoners of conscience, who are not formally sentenced to death through the courts for any crime, but who held in arbitrary detention, blood-tested, and killed as their organs are required. Reports in 2006 and 2007 of the widespread harvesting of practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline. The extent to which th practice persists to this day is unknown, partly due to the lack of transparency in Chinese data. Wangs remarks are second set of high-profile coments from a top Chinese transplant official that openly sets forth what appears to be a new official public stance on the use of prisoners organs. In March, Huang Jiefu said that hospitals and judicial authorities should form ties in order to source organs. These new remarks have been a break from what was the previously accepted, and stated, offcial view. For the last six years, and in particular the last two, the Chinese has promised to move to a system of purely voluntary donation, and vowed repeatedly that it would phase out the use of prisoners organs. ABRIL | 2014
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