China’s Execution, Inc.: “The People’s Republic Has Long Been Suspected of Selling
Organs From Prisoners. Now One New York Doctor Knows the
Rumors Are True.

In China, human rights groups say, citizens have been executed for nonviolent offenses like taking
bribes, credit card theft, small-scale tax evasion, and stealing truckloads of vegetables. Political
dissidents have also been sentenced to death. Chinese embassy officials did not respond to requests
for comment, but in the past the government has denied promoting the for-profit organ trade…

Executions in China have surged to 400 in April alone as the
Communist government conducts another of its periodic “strike hard” crackdowns on crime. During
the most recent campaign, in 1996, more than 4000 prisoners were killed…

Even in a normal year China executes more inmates than in all other nations combined, reports
Amnesty International. In 1999, the confirmed toll reached 1263, according to the organization,
which gathers its statistics from tallies published, for propaganda purposes, in government-run
newspapers.” Village Voice