Illegal Organ Harvesting Is Over in China: Report

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Long accused of harvesting the organs of prisoners on death row to be sold to the highest bidder, China appears to have cleaned up its act, the Washington Post reports. China has been castigated by the international community for building the world's second-largest—but basically unregulated—transplant industry by harvesting thousands of organs from condemned inmates, including political prisoners, each year. 

China vowed to stopthe practice in 2014 and now, thanks to a decade of effort by Huang Jiefu, a former deputy health minister in China, and a Chicago surgeon, China has a "transparent" online registry of voluntary donors and a database that matches recipients, per the Post. Huang says the "game of wealth and power" of illegal organ allocation is over, though Chinese law does not explicitly prevent using the organs of convicted prisoners.

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