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Letters

Oct. 20, 2023

One has to wonder if China truly protects its prisoners

In 2022, a McMaster University health report stated that “China is the only country in the world to have an industrial-scale organ trafficking practice that harvests organs from executed prisoners of conscience. This practice is known as forced organ harvesting.”

William Slomanson

Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Email: bills@tjsl.edu

William Slomanson is also the author of California Procedure in a Nutshell (5th ed. 2014).

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Stanford's Visiting Scholar Xinying Huang wrote that "contrary to what one might think, Chinese prisons are safe," "prisoner's rights are protected to a high standard," and there are "no abnormal death[s]." He adds that the "Chinese government pays much attention to human rights protections in prison." In one of his books on China, the promin...

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