Human right activists on Tuesday slammed the Vatican for inviting a Chinese health official to attend a summit on organ trafficking as questions linger about Beijing’s alleged practice of using executed inmates as organ donors.
Human right activists on Tuesday slammed the Vatican for inviting a Chinese health official to attend a summit on organ trafficking as questions linger about Beijing’s alleged practice of using executed inmates as organ donors.
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Pontifical Academy of Sciences, a scientific academy based in Vatican, has sent an invitation to Chinese health minister Huang Jiefu to attend a two-day organ trafficking summit. Huang is a controversial figure, who has been appointed by the Chinese government, to overhaul the country’s organ transplant system.
Talking to journalists at the summit, Huang described the controversy over China’s participation as « ridiculous » but maintained that due to country’s enormous population the practice may still exist. « There is zero tolerance. However, China is a big country with a 1.
