During the last 15 years, China has seen remarkable economic growth and development as rampant capitalism takes hold. Unfortunately whilst the country has developed economically, it has by and large stood still in terms of human rights.

The latest in a long stream and the most shocking to date of abuses in human rights for big business is surge in the level of executions in China geared towards the burgeoning and highly lucrative organ transplants sold to foreigners who need transplants.

State execution for organ transplants !, and even using "mobile execution buses" where several executions (via lethal injection) can be carried out simultaneously in the bus. Their organs are then typically removed for transplant the same day.

And this is the China with 676 days to go before the start of the Beijing Olympics !

Close to 15,000 'criminals' are to be executed this year and growing, with the Chinease judicial system can hardly be called fair : - trials last only a few hours, hardly enough time to create a proper defence - denial of access of family to prisoners after arrest - repression of defence lawyers You may think that your investments have little to do with China, since your not investing in a chinease company, but many of the big UK companies have a significant prescence in china from manufacturing to drugs testing.

..... somthing to ponder....

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