Chinese Doctor’s Suicide Casts Light on Forced Organ Harvesting in China
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Dr. Zang Yunjin, a liver transplant specialist in China, committed suicide in the early hours of Feb. 26, a death that may have been related to his alleged involvement with the mass harvesting of organs from Falun Gong adherents.
Zang, the director of the Institute of Organ Donation and Transplantation of Qingdao University Medical School, and director of the Organ Transplantation Center of Qingdao University Hospital, jumped off a building, according to sources cited in an article published on Feb. 27 by Chinese media Medical Community. He was 57 years old.