China wants favored nation trade status while they do this:
Chinese doctor details organ harvesting from prisoners
Washington Post
Wednesday, June 27, 2001
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A Chinese physician seeking political asylum in the United States says that as a burn specialist in China, he took part in harvesting corneas
and skin from more than 100 executed prisoners, including one who hadn't died yet.
Wang Guoqi said in a written statement that he also saw other doctors remove vital organs from executed prisoners and that his hospital, the Tianjin Paramilitary
Police General Brigade Hospital, sold the organs for huge profits.
China's practice of harvesting body parts after executions has been widely alleged, but Wang's asylum bid offers a rare, eyewitness account.
The House International Relations Committee has invited him to testify today.
Wang, 38, said he obtained a passport under a false name for about $550 and came to the United States with a tour group April 30. He stayed rather than returning to
China as scheduled May 14.
He contacted Harry Wu, a Chinese-American political dissident who spent 19 years in prison in China. Wu heads the Laogai Foundation, a nonprofit organization
campaigning against the collecting of organs from Chinese prisoners. He said that he went to great lengths to verify Wang's identity.
Wang's statements, provided to the Washington Post by Wu's foundation, include the dates and places of executions, the names of doctors involved and graphic
descriptions of the procedures to remove organs.
According to his statement, the police hospital often was notified prior to multiple executions.
In many cases, Wang said, prisoners were shot, then placed in ambulances, where their kidneys were extracted within two minutes of death. A kdiney could be sold for
more than $15,000 each, he said.
He and other doctors also went to crematoriums and removed skin from a corpse's arms, legs, chest and back to use later on burn victims. He said he also extracted
corneas and other tissue.
Wang said his conscience has been "tortured" since a 1995 incident in which he and other doctors arrived for the execution of a man convicted of robbery and murder.
The prisoner was shot, but he didn't die immediately, Wang said. Nevertheless, the doctors were ordered to extract his kidneys and his skin. Afterward, the surgeons
threw the half-dead prisoner in a bag and left, Wang said.
"Whatever impact I have made in the lives of burn victims and transplant patients does not excuse the unethical and immoral manner of extracting organs," Wang
wrote.
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