China Will Stop Taking Prisoners’ Organs

China has pledged to put an end to its controversial practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners within the next five years. Approximately two-thirds of China’s transplanted organs come from prisoners. China does not disclose the number of prisoners put to death each year, but human rights groups estimate that they number in the thousands. The government denies allegations that inmates are pressured to consent to donate their organs and says that the decision to shift to a

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