7 Jailed In 'Kidney For iPad' Case In China

Posted by timothy on Friday November 30, 2012 @05:19PM from the let's-ask-tyler-cowen dept.

hackingbear writes "In China, the whole team of medical staff and their brokers were sentenced to jail yesterday over their involvement in the case of a teenager who sold a kidney to buy an iPhone and iPad. He Wei, who organized the illegal transaction in April 2011, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment by the Beihu District People's Court in Chenzhou City. The court added that the defendants had paid compensation worth more than 1.47 million yuan (~ US $237,000) to Wang. Ministry of Health statistics show that about 1.5 million people in China need transplants, but only 10,000 operations are performed each year."

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Re:Aha by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-30 17:58 · Score: 0, Redundant

you are selling yourself, so it is prostitution and is still illegal.
in other news, suicide is still illegal.
harming yourself OR others is illegal, not just harming others.
apparently even if you are actually helping someone by harming yourself.