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China changes transplant strategy

Will stop getting its organs from executed felons

By Keith Bradsher

 |  New York Times  

  March 24, 2012

China said Friday that it planned to end within three to five years the practice of transplanting organs from executed prisoners, a step that would address what for decades has been one of the country’s darkest and most criticized human rights issues.

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