Lenamon & Ortiz, P.A. (LexBlog China)
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Amnesty International Report on Death Penalty 2017
Amnesty International has released its annual report on the status of capital punishment around the world. Entitled “Amnesty International Global Report: Death Sentences and Executions 2017,” you can read it online in its pdf format. 2017 Report: Numbers Have to Be Higher than Reported The 48-page report covers “the judicial use of the death penalty” as...
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Amnesty International Death Penalty Report: China Secrecy Still a Problem
Amnesty International has released its latest study of the death penalty worldwide. A particular concern: China and its continued secret executions. China’s Death Penalty We discussed the China Death Penalty (with the Death Penalty Vans) in a series of earlier posts written by Sin-Ting Mary Liu. See, e.g., “In Depth Look at the Law: China...
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Record Number of Executions Worldwide According to Amnesty International
More executions are taking place in the world today than they have in the past 25 years. For details, check out this week’s TIME magazine story, reporting on findings released in a recent Amnesty International report. China Is Number One in Death Penalty Executions The country that is killing the most people via the death...
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China Death Vans at an End? China Announces Cut in Crimes Carrying Death Penalty
Last year, we had a series of in-depth articles posted over several weeks discussing capital punishment in China, and the horrific reality of the China Death Vans. Please take the time to read thru this information — information that we found was simply not covered to any great extent in the mainstream media. China Death...
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China Death Penalty – New Guidelines But What About Human Organ Harvesting?
The death vans that cruise around China, killing people for all sorts of crimes and then harvesting their organs for sale on the human organ black market, was so shocking to us when intern Sin-Ting Mary Liu described the efforts, that we posted a long series here, excerpts from her excellent work – complete with the footnotes...
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In Depth Look at the Law: Secrecy in China – Successfully Hiding the Truth About Executions for Profit from the World
Supplying the International Demand for Human Transplant Organs is Big Business in China The demand for transplantable organs is the main reason why organ procurement is so pervasive in China. [204] It is common knowledge that high-paying customers will receive a prompt organ transplant in China. [205]Former transplant patients have reported that they were expected...
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In Depth Look at the Law: China Death Vans and China’s Widespread Corruption – There is No Fairness in China’s Criminal Justice System
Corruption of China’s Communist Party It has been reported that there is widespread corruption among Chinese government officials including graft, bribery, use of official position for personal gain, blackmail, misuse of public money, and extortion. [161] One source cites graft and bribery as constituting over 50% of the economic crimes in China.[162] Under the current...
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In Depth Look at the Law: China Death Vans and the Sale of Human Organs Harvested from Death Penalty Executions
Sale of organs “illegal” in China after July 2006 In 2006, the government enacted the provisions on the “Entry and Exit of Cadavers,” which officially banned the commercial sale of human organs. [136] However, the 2006 provisions failed to address the harvesting of organs from executed prisoners, leaving the 1984 order intact.[137] The drafter of...
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In Depth Look at the Law: China Death Vans and Harvesting Prisoner Organs for Profit
Due to reports of the torture and anguish of prisoners and the secrecy surrounding the death penalty’s application in China, it is virtually impossible to independently verify that any executed prisoners truly gave consent for the use of their organs.[100] Chinese prisoners are generally not notified of their impending execution until just hours before it...
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Found: One Recent In-depth Article on the China Death Vans. Who’s Covering the Story? Tibet. And They’ve Researched Death Vans Back to the Nazis.
Tomorrow, our series on the China Death Penalty Vans continues. This horror is happening right now, and it’s amazing how this story is not being covered by the media. No one knows about this!!! Searching this week for news stories on China’s growing industry in human organs with death penalty vans driving the villages for...
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In Depth Look at the Law: Death Penalty Organ Harvesting is a Government Business in China
Organ harvesting is a government business in China. [77] At least ninety percent of all organ transplants performed in China come from executed prisoners. [78] Only the government has the power to carry out these executions, and therefore, only the government can control the organ trade.[79] Without the death penalty in China, the entire system of...
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In Depth Look at the Law: China’s Death Penalty – 3: Who are the Falun Gong? Why are they targeted for execution and organ harvesting?
This is third part of our new Friday Legal Memo Series – In Depth Look at the Law, where we’re focusing on an international horror that is not getting enough attention. In China, people are being executed inside mobile death vans, vehicles that drive from village to village. First, the victim is killed inside the...
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In Depth Look at the Law: China’s Death Penalty -2: Truly Inhumane Killings Are Happening in China Under the Guise of Capital Punishment
This is second part of our new Friday Legal Memo Series – In Depth Look at the Law, where we’re focusing on an international horror that is not getting enough attention. In China, people are being executed inside mobile death vans, vehicles that drive from village to village. First, the victim is killed inside the...