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Taiwan doctors held responsible for brokering organs
Local doctors who have helped a visiting Chinese doctor solicit Taiwan patients for liver transplants in China will be subject to legal penalties...[D]octors from three or four Taiwanese hospitals are suspected of having served as brokers between Taiwanese patients and Chinese organ suppliers, which is illegal...Pointing out that many international human rights organizations have expressed concern about China's frequent execution of prisoners, Tien implied that a majority of those executed -- many of whom were reportedly in healthy condition -- might have been executed to harvest their organs, rather than as punishment for their crimes...[refers to Tianjin First Central Hospital, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital.]