A Chinese journalist was sacked after investigating...

A Chinese journalist was sacked after investigating a scandal involving the unauthorised removal of organs from an executed prisoner.
Yao Xiaohong, the deputy news editor of a newspaper in the southern Jiangxi province, was fired for "breaking reporting regulations", a former colleague at the Metropolitan Consumption News said.
Mr Yao's expose of the trade in organs in the rural county of Pingxiang was suppressed by his own newspaper, the colleague said.
China denies claims that organs are harvested from prisoners for profit, insisting that all organs are donations, removed with the consent of either the condemned or their next of kin.
The investigation into the organ trade was published by another local newspaper, the Today Family Weekly, and found its way on to the internet site of China's most powerful newspaper, the People's Daily.
The article followed protests by the family of a murderer, Fu Xinrong, executed in May 2000, that his remains were still missing, more than a year later. The family had received a tip-off that Fu's body was sold to a provincial hospital for a "high price". The news drove Fu's father to commit suicide.
Investigations disclosed that Fu did not die at the usual Pingxiang county place of execution, but at another site some distance away.
The body was removed by four men in a hospital van who told a prosecutor who tried to stop them that they had struck a "deal" with the court in Pingxiang.