Huang Jiefu and Jose Nunez, centre, praised the rise in the number of voluntary donations as they attended a conference in Beijing NG HAN GUAN/APChina has stopped harvesting the organs of prisoners and is now relying on a voluntary donation system, according to Chinese officials and international experts. The use of prisoners’ organs was banned last year, but foreign activists allege that the practice of killing detained members of religious and minority groups for their organs was still widespread in the country. Research showed “that the Chinese government actively condone, indeed are involved in, the murder of potentially thousands of their own citizens every year for the purpose of forcibly extracting vital organs”, Fiona Bruce, the Conservatice MP, said in a debate in Westminster…

Source: The Times October 20, 2016 22:52 UTC