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INTERNATIONAL 29,1994 Monday • Augu Human rights group opposes use of prisoners for organ transplants Decorating on a Dime: You’re on your own! Now’s your chance to create the room of your dreams. T.J. Maxx can help design your ‘home-away-from-home’ with its variety of affordable comforters, sheet sets, towels and bath accessories. BEIJING (AP) — Executed prisoners are the source of most organ transplants in Chi na, and the donors sometimes are still alive when their or gans are removed, a human rights group says. Executions appear to be scheduled according to trans plant needs, Human Rights Watch-Asia said in a report scheduled for release today. It said prisoners’ consent is rarely sought or is coerced in the last few hours before death. In some cases, kidneys have been removed from prisoners the night before their executions, and some executions have been deliberately botched to keep the bodies alive longer and improve chances of organ transplant suc cess, the rights group said. In other cases, medical per sonnel attend the execution and swiftly remove the organs after death is announced, it said. The number of executions in China is a state secret. But Hu man Rights Watch-Asia said "tens of thousands” of people have been put to death since 1983, when the number of death sentences began to grow under a series of anti-crime crackdowns. Corruption and drug-traffick ing are among crimes punish able by death. A secret Communist Party di rective in 1983 said some anti government actions were pun ishable by death, Human Rights Watch-Asia said. But it noted that no executions of dissidents have been reported in the past 15 years. The group cited government documents, medical journal arti cles and statements by doctors and others as evidence that exe cuted prisoners are the source of most organs used in transplants in China. Chinese government offices were closed Sunday, and a tele phone call for comment was not answered. The government long denied that executed prisoners were used as a source of organs, the report said. But it said that in 1993, China told the U.N. Com mittee Against Torture that or gans occasionally were removed with prisoners’ consent. Human Rights Watch-Asia said Chinese trials often are unfair — including coerced con fessions and the growing useo! torture in the 1980s — leading to a high risk innocent people are executed and become organ donors. The group urged China to ban the use of prisoners’ organs, and said foreign governments should bar their citizens from getting organ transplants in China and should stop cooperating in Chi nese transplant research. It also urged China to abolish the death penalty. Executions in China are usu ally by a bullet to the back of the head. Human Rights Watch-Asia said families either are notin formed about the organ donation or are threatened with largt bills for the prisoner’s food, oth er expenses and even the costo the bullet if they refuse consent Kidneys and corneas are the ‘‘overwhelming majority” transplants in China, there port said. An estimated 1,400 to 1, kidneys from executed prisoner were used in transplant opera tions in 1992, and the numbet probably has increased since then, the rights group said. Go Bryan t student By Chris The Bai The historic Main Street in c has not changed early 1900s, bu from the only pk dents to shop to in Bryan-College In response to merchants forme , 1 Pilot deliberately crashed plane, killed 44; report says RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A suicidal Royal Air Maroc pilot disconnected his plane’s automatic pi lot and deliberately crashed, said a report today from the commission investigating the crash that killed 44 people. 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