China says that since 2015, it has transitioned its organ transplantation system from using prisoners’ organs to relying solely on those from citizen volunteers who die from natural causes—like in developed countries. These claims have largely been accepted by international medical organizations like the World Health Organization and The Transplantation Society.
But experts on China’s system of organ harvesting—the forced removal of organs from unwilling donors—say that this reform is a smokescreen.
