NEW ALLEGATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN CHINA

NEW YORK, Feb 25 (LSN) – On Monday, Associated Press reported on the horrific story of the attempt by two alleged Chinese officials to sell kidneys, corneas, livers, skin,  pancreases and lungs of their executed prisoners in the United States. Cheng Yong Wang,  41, and Xingqi Fu, 35, were arrested Friday in Manhattan. According to papers provided by an informant, Wang had been a prosecutor in the Hainan Province of China and participated in the execution of Chinese prisoners.  The pair were caught by an FBI sting operation wherein an agent posed as a board member of a dialysis center interested in purchasing the body parts. Wang allegedly discussed with the agent the methods by which Chinese prisoners are executed, and described how he and Fu would sell the dialysis center two corneas from executed prisoners for $5,000. Fu asked the agent how old skin could be to be sold, and promised that lungs would come from non-smokers.  Wang signed a contract Feb. 13 with an informant saying he coordinated with Chinese government agencies and hospitals to get organs for transplant, prosecutors said. The transplants were to be performed in China for foreigners.  Strangely, the next day, on Tuesday, the European Union (EU) decided not to table a resolution critical of China's human rights record at next month’s meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. EU ministers claimed China's abysmal human rights record was improving, saying, “In view of the first encouraging results of the EU-China human rights dialogue, the council agreed that neither the [EU] presidency nor any other member state should table or co-sponsor a draft resolution at the next UN Commission of Human Rights.”