Here’s which countries execute the most people

[Hamartia Antidote]

Huang blasted allegations that the number of organ transplants far surpassed the amount of organs donated as lacking evidence, saying that China performed around 8 percent of the world's organ transplant surgeries, and also consumed 8 percent of world's post-operative medications, which are all produced by foreign companies and are traceable.

Yes, this year he retracted his "blasted allegations" statement from last year.

Horror story! Really gruesome!

So Is the problem that not enough people volunteer to donate their organs?

Yep, demand far exceeded supply. So they needed to start executing more people to make up for it. Or steal dead people's organs without the family's permission...which is something people have also been talking about.

 

[Sky lord]

Yes, this year he retracted his "blasted allegations" statement from last year.



Yep, demand far exceeds supply.

So what they really need is an advertising campaign rather than execution vans!

 

[jamal18]

The death penalty is a symptom of a culture of violence, not a solution to it.

by the very concept The Death Penalty Is a Human Rights Abuse

Always good to have your opinion, but you must remember others have theirs. Throughout human history, every culture has deemed the death penalty as appropriate.

 

[jamal18]

this is the worlds opinion not mine alone,

‘Death penalty has no place in 21st century,
-UN chief

Thank you. As your by line says, it's not the world's opinion. It's the view of the UN chief.

The figures show many people, and many countries, disagree with him.

 

[JSCh]

Over 100,000 new organ donors register in China in 2016
Source: Xinhua| 2017-03-31 20:58:43|Editor: ying



BEIJING, March 31 (Xinhua) -- China saw 104,538 new registered organ donors last year, almost 100 times more than in 2010.

Nearly 170,000 organ donors had registered as of the end of 2016, over 60 percent young or middle-aged, according to the China Organ Donation Administrative Center.

Almost 11,300 vital organs were donated nationwide last year, an increase of 45 percent from 2015. By the end of 2016, China had recorded 9,996 cases of after-death organ donation, resulting in the donation of 27,613 vital organs.

"Organ donation in China has gradually won public attention and support," said Hou Fengzhong, deputy head of the center.

Every year there are around 300,000 patients in China in need of organ transplantation, but only 10,000 of them receive surgery.

"The shortage of donated organs may be resulted from a lack of knowledge about organ donation among the public," Hou said.

According to a survey by China Organ Transplantation Development Foundation, 83 percent of people said they were willing to donate organs.

Not knowing where to sign up, or registering procedures being too complicated was the top concern for 56 percent of those who said they are not donors, according to the survey.

 

[The BrOkEn HeArT]

Where is the north Korea?

 

[JSCh]

Yes, this year he retracted his "blasted allegations" statement from last year.

He retract?? Source.

 

[Proud Antinational Hero]

Executions by the state are bad. All countries should strive to minimize exections and eventually eliminate them.

But Amnesty International needs to put out two new reports of mob lynchings and gangrapes by country.

India under the evil Modi-RSS sanghie chaddie regime would easily top both lists of mob lynchings and gangrapes.

Evil sanghie chaddie scum are destroying India. Mob lynchings and gangrapes are at an all time high in India under the Modi regime. India is rapidly becoming a lawless, failed state under the evil sanghie regime.

 

[JSCh]

China may have a different view on the need of death penalty versus western liberal country.
I think it is safe for me to say that a vast majority of Chinese people support death penalty.
Maybe that is offensive to some western people moral preference.
But Chinese moral compass lean more towards the victim of crime.
And in the case of organ donor, Chinese lean more towards the living person in need of life-saving organ transplant.
And I personally see nothing wrong with that.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

February 2017. Huang Jiefu, in charge of overhauling the Chinese transplant network, angers rights activists as Vatican trafficking talks begin.

An official in charge of overhauling China’s organ transplant programme has said the country may still be using organs from executed prisoners in some cases, even though there is technically zero tolerance for the practice.
.

 

[Cell_DbZ]

China may still be using executed prisoners' organs, official admits

Well, it is not like they need it anymore...

 

[StraightShooter]

If you look at it in proportion to the population, the highest by far seems to be Iran.

But 1000+ for China is an amazing figure too - would not be tolerated in democracies - are these murderers? Or any kind of crime?

Regardless of what the actual number of executions in China is, the very fact that they do not disclose the number is an indictment that many of these executions are politically motivated and will attract human rights criticism.

Some of China's richest and most powerful men have mysteriously vanished

The logo of the Anbang Insurance Group is seen on the company's offices in Beijing on June 14, 2017. (Mark Schiefelbein / Associated Press)

Ann M. SimmonsContact Reporter



The financial giant Anbang Insurance Group Co. announced Wednesday that its chairman, Wu Xiaohui, was stepping aside temporarily for “personal reasons” and that he had authorized “relevant senior executives to continue running the business.”

The announcement, which spurred a decline in stocks in which Anbang has significant investment, came just hours after the independent Chinese financial magazine Caijing reported that authorities had detained Wu.

The story was later deleted from the magazine’s website, but the BBC reported that police had taken Wu away from the Anbang offices in Beijing on Thursday.

Anbang Insurance Group Co. announced Wednesday that Chairman Wu Xiaohui was stepping aside because he was temporarily unable to fulfill his role due to “personal reasons.” (Che Liang / Imaginechina)

The global insurance company, which acquired the Waldorf Astoria New York hotel in 2014, is one of the largest insurance groups in China, according to its website. A short statement from the company did not address the magazine story or indicate how long Wu might be gone.

But his abrupt departure doesn’t come as a total surprise. In recent years, dozens of senior executives have mysteriously vanished. Most are believed to have been caught up in an aggressive anti-corruption campaign that has targeted financial industry executives, government officials and the heads of state-owned companies.

In many cases, the disappeared have returned. In others, they have turned up in custody or were found dead.

Here are some cases:

Xiao Jianhua

This April 2016 photo provided by the Chinese University of Hong Kong shows Chinese billionaire Xiao Jianhua, founder of Beijing-based Tomorrow Group.

A Chinese-born Canadian citizen, Xiao Jianhua vanished from his residence at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong in the early hours of Jan. 27. The Times reported that his disappearance fueled speculation that Chinese security agents illegally nabbed him from the former British colony and whisked him to the mainland, possibly as part of a crackdown on the financial industry and an investigation into whether he was involved in financial crimes. Xiao’s reported $6-billion fortune made him China’s 32nd richest person in 2016. His conglomerate, the Tomorrow Group, includes investments in real estate, insurance, banking, coal, cement and rare earth minerals.


Zhou Chengjian

Zhou Chengjian, chairman and president of Metersbonwe Group, speaks during a forum in Shanghai in December 2009. (dycj / Imaginechina)

The billionaire chairman of Metersbonwe, one of China's leading clothing companies, Zhou Chengjian was reported missing on Jan. 7. According to CNBC, Zhou’s company issued a statement saying it was looking into reports that police had detained the business executive. The Financial Times reported that Zhou, whose fortune was estimated at $4 billion in 2015, returned to work a week later together with Tu Ke, the company's board secretary, who had also temporarily vanished.

Guo Guangchang

This March 2004 photo shows Guo Guangchang, chairman of Fosun International Ltd. (Associated Press)

Guo Guangchang, the chairman of the private-sector conglomerate Fosun, which owns the resort company Club Med and Cirque du Soleil, disappeared in December 2015. Company officials said in a statement that Guo had been "assisting in certain investigations carried out by judicial authorities," according to CNBC. The executive, who reportedly has a personal fortune of close to $10 billion, subsequently reappeared at a company meeting in Shanghai. No further explanation was given for his temporary absence.

Lei Jie

Lei Jie, former chairman of Founder Securities Co., Ltd., during an interview in Beijing in December 2009. (Liang Zi / Imaginechina)

Lei Jie, the former chairman of Founder Securities Company Ltd., a joint venture partner of Swiss bank Credit Suisse, went missing in 2015. The Wall Street Journal reported that company officials initially said Lei had requested a week’s leave through relatives on Jan. 12, 2015, but then fell out of contact a week later. On Jan. 22, the company announced that it had appointed an interim chairman, Reuters reported. Lei was released from police custody a few months later after assisting authorities with an inquiry, according to media reports.

Mao Xiaofeng

Mao Xiaofeng, then president of China Minsheng Banking Corp., gives a speech in Beijing on July 28, 2009. (Song Zhaoqing / Imaginechina)

Mao Xiaofeng, the president of China Minsheng Banking Corp. — who at 43 was reportedly the youngest president of a listed Chinese bank (one whose shares are traded on an official stock exchange) — also disappeared in January 2015. Quartz reported that Mao was taken away by the Communist Party’s anti-graft agency to help with an investigation into Ling Jihua, a onetime senior aide to former President Hu Jintao, and that officials at Minsheng, the world’s 49th largest bank, said Mao had resigned for “personal reasons.”

Mike Poon Ho Man

Mike Poon Ho Man, former chief executive of China Aircraft Leasing Group Holdings, at a news conference in December 2014. (Gcmt / Imaginechina)

Mike Poon Ho Man, the former chief executive of China Aircraft Leasing Group, mysteriously resurfaced in Hong Kong in November 2015, six months after he submitted a letter of resignation and his company said he could no longer be contacted. According to the South China Morning Post, Poon had been in detention as part of an inquiry into graft in China’s booming aviation sector.

Yang Zezhu
In January 2016, Yang Zezhu, a prominent banker and former chairman of the Chinese brokerage Changjiang Securities, fell to his death from the 12th floor of a building in China’s Wuhan city. According to Human Rights Watch, it is unclear whether Yang, who had been under investigation for corruption, was free at the time of his death, or had been detained by the authorities. Reuters reported that Yang had left a suicide note.

ann.simmons@latimes.com

Special correspondent Jessica Meyers in Beijing contributed to this report.

http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-china-billionaires-vanish-20170614-story.html

 

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Scores of Chinese billionaires and CEOs have disappeared in ‘state-sanctioned abductions’
FEBRUARY 6, 20178:25AM

Canadian-Chinese billionaire Xia Jianhua is the latest businessman to disappear in bizarre circumstances. Picture: Next Magazine/AP

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DOZENS of China’s billionaires, millionaires and business executives have disappeared in “state-sanctioned abductions” — only to reappear days or weeks later without explanation — in the past 12 months.

In the latest incident, Chinese-born Canadian tycoon Xiao Jianhua was kidnapped from his luxury apartment in Hong Kong’s Four Seasons Hotel by mainland security agents on January 27.

Hong Kong Police investigating the alleged abduction have seized CCTV footage from the hotel which reportedly shows the businessman being escorted from the hotel without a struggle.

The probe is going ahead against the wishes of Mr Xiao’s family who fear any intervention may compromise his safety.

According to the South China Morning Post, Mr Xiao’s wife fled to Japan after reporting his kidnap to Hong Kong and then retracting it.

Mr Xiao is the most high-profile of a long list of moguls and executives from at least 34 Chinese companies to be seized in bizarre circumstances over the past year alone.

Their disappearances are believed to be linked to China’s ongoing anti-corruption campaign, which some critics believe is being used to target President Xi Jinping’s political opponents.

Mr Xiao’s Beijing-based financial services firm Tommorrow Group posted two comments on its WeChat social media account which were later deleted.

“Regarding the reports on me in recent days, I have to say that I, Xiao Jianhua, have been recovering from an illness outside the country,” one of the posts read.




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Mr Xiao’s alleged kidnap from his luxury apartment at Hong Kong’s Four Seasons Hotel has shaken the former British colony.Source:Supplied

The mystery deepened when a front-page advertisement purportedly written by Mr Xiao was published on the front page of the Ming Pao newspaper on Saturday.

“Let there be no misunderstanding!” it said, “it’s not true that I’ve been abducted and taken back to the mainland.”

“I’m a patriotic Overseas Chinese and I’ve always loved the (ruling Communist) party and the country.”

It remains unclear why Mr Xiao was detained but the case bears chilling similarities to that of Hong Kong bookseller and British passport holder Lee Bo, who vanished in January last year only to turn up in mainland China three months later.

Mr Lee was one of five booksellers who vanished between December 2015 and January 2016, triggering international condemnation and local protests. He later insisted he had crossed the border “voluntarily”.

The five were believed to have been kidnapped by Chinese security forces over plans to publish a series of books critical of the government, including one about the love life of President Xi before he came into power.

Guo Guangchang, the billionaire chairman of chairman of Fosun International Ltd vanished for several days in December. Picture: Kevin Lee/BloombergSource:Supplied

Mr Xiao recently denied allegations he fled to Hong Kong in 2014 in a bid to escape the corruption crackdown. The billionaire, nicknamed the Warren Buffett of China, is said to have acted as a broker for President Xi and his family.

Chinese-language news site Bowen Press speculated Mr Xiao could have been connected to an “anti-Xi coalition”.

Hong Kong’s security bureau said the government “will not allow non-Hong Kong law enforcement officers to take law enforcement actions in Hong Kong”.

But Democratic Party’s James To said there was a “credible suspicion” Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” deal had been breached.

“After the Lee Bo fiasco people are very concerned about whether Hong Kong residents or people lawfully staying in Hong Kong will be protected,” Mr To told AFP.

The South China Morning Post reported that Mr Xiao was currently in mainland China, not receiving medical treatment, and was only in contact with his family.

He had wanted to move some of his businesses to Japan after feeling unsafe in Hong Kong, the Post said.

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The Canadian consulate said it was aware of the reports and its officials were “in contact” with authorities.

In 2015, Mr Xiao was made “ambassador-at-large” for Antigua and Barbuda, according to news site Caribbean360, which pictured Mr Xiao at the time with the country’s prime minister Gaston Browne.

Hong Kong-based analyst Willy Lam said Mr Xiao may have been targeted because he knew “potentially embarrassing details” about financial actions involving major Chinese political clans.

Prominent local lawyer Jean-Francois Harvey said the disappearance of Mr Xiao and other businessmen was highly unsettling.

“People will be questioning whether Hong Kong is a safe haven,” he told the AP. “I think the answer to that question is very, very clear now, sadly.”

China’s anti-corruption drive was launched after President Xi took power in 2012 and has brought down government officials and corporate executives.

Billionaire Guo Guangchang, the chairman of one of the country’s biggest private-sector conglomerates Fosun, which acquired resort franchise Club Med last year, went missing for several days in December.

When he resurfaced, his company issued a statement saying he had been “assisting in certain investigations carried out by judicial authorities.”

On January 7, retail billionaire Zhou Chengjian also disappeared. His company issued a statement saying it was looking into reports that he had been picked up by the police.

He returned to work 10 days later amid speculation he had been caught up in the anti-corruption campaign.

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[JSCh]

What you quote has nothing to do with the number of transplant in China. Therefore your statement that he retract is Incorrect!

And what you quoted,

An official in charge of overhauling China’s organ transplant programme has said the country may still be using organs from executed prisoners in some cases, even though there is technically zero tolerance for the practice.
​

is an obvious distorted way of misrepresent what Huang said. And it is this - quoted also from the same Guardian article,

“There is zero tolerance. However, China is a big country with a 1.3 billion population so I am sure, definitely, there is some violation of the law,” he told reporters at a conference in Rome.
​

He is being truthful that there could be illegal cases happening because China is so big and populace. It is definitely not a retraction on China's policy.

You know why Chinese official do not like to argue with western about issue? Because your media has no shame!! It is useless arguing, it would be distorted anyway.

Rather China just present her case on her own timing. The smart westerner would figure out the truth, and the rest would just stay ignorant.

 

[cyborga8a]

10 to 20 is fine but, a 1000 is a bit too much.