China - Ah... Capitalism is alive and well in China as a southern Chinese
hospital sells livers from executed prisoners to wealthy Asian transplant
patients. 
A Hong Kong newspaper reported on Sunday that undercover reporters were urged
to book a liver from a good young prisoner during the current spate of mass
executions that precedes the Chinese New Year. 
Our experience tells us that there are many organs before the Lunar New Year,
a doctor from the Sun Yat Sen University Hospital in Guangzhou told the South
China Sunday Morning Post. If you miss this chance, you may have to wait until
Labor Day. China has always insisted that donations are voluntary. But doctors
from the hospital told the Post that consent was not required for criminals and
most organs came from executed prisoners. 
The hospital, which subsequently denied the doctors´ comments, charges about
20,000 pounds for a liver transplant.