In China, Organ Transplants from Executed Prisoners
A hospital where many of China’s organ transplants take place (Photo: BBC video)
Marco Werman talks with The World’s Mary Kay Magistad in Beijing about the Chinese practice of harvesting human organs from executed prisoners.
About ten thousand organ transplants take place in China each year — an estimated two thirds of those come from executed prisoners.
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