Relatives of executed prisoner suing court alleging body was sold illegally to organ traders

Transplant News, July 13, 2001

Alleging that his body was sold illegally to organ traders, the relatives of an executed prisoner in China have filed a lawsuit against the court they hold responsible, according to the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy.

The group said family members of Fu Xinrong, who was executed by gunshot for murder last year, have retained a lawyer to sue the Intermediate People's Court in Pingsiang City in southeast China's Jiangxi Province. Family members are charging the court sold Fu's body for tens of thousands of profits to a local hospital where his organs were procured, according to the Kyodo News Service.

The center said after learning of his son's fate in March, Fu's father killed himself.