Word: wu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fire Mandarin. But this is no ordinary transaction. The men are discussing a straightforward proposition to sell the kidneys, corneas, livers and lungs of executed Chinese prisoners for tens of thousands of dollars. Unbeknown to one of the would-be organ brokers, however, his U.S.-based contact is Harry Wu, the human-rights activist who spent 19 years in Chinese jails and who has just secretly captured their entire exchange on videotape...
With this tape, Wu says, he finally has proof of what he has long charged: that the Chinese are exchanging human body parts for hard currency. And last week the FBI announced it had arrested two men: a former Chinese prosecutor named Wang Chengyong, 41, and Fu Xingqi, 35, his alleged accomplice. Wang's lawyer claims his client was set up. The Chinese government said that "such incidents never happen in China" and that any violations of Chinese law would be punished. But the arrests, which come at a time of increasingly desperate organ shortages, served to focus new international...
...Wu and other human-rights activists claim that Chinese authorities simply confiscate whatever body parts they need after an execution, rarely asking the condemned prisoners or their families for permission beforehand. Doctors at military hospitals then reportedly transplant the organs into wealthy foreigners willing to pay anywhere from $10,000 to $40,000 for the operation. Some activists fear that Chinese officials may have broadened the kinds of crimes punishable by death in order to line their own pockets. "We estimate there are about 6,000 prisoners executed in China each year," says William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International...
...have never had problems finding somewhere tostudy in Langdell," said Wu...
...There's a lot of e-mail kiosks so you never have to wait," Wu said...