CHINA. CHINA BANS SALES OF HUMAN ORGANS

China's Health Ministry explicitly banned sales of human organs in an apparent attempt to clean up the country's lucrative but laxly regulated transplant business.
New regulations viewed on the Health Ministry's Web site forbid the buying and selling of organs and required that donors give written permission for their organs to be transplanted.
Human-rights groups said many organs — including those transplanted into wealthy foreigners — came from executed prisoners who may not have given their permission, claims China routinely denied.