Sentencing of Chinese Doctor, Death of Whistleblower Shed Light on China’s Large-Scale Organ Trade

News Analysis The recent sentencing of a Chinese doctor and the mysterious death of a whistleblower have further exposed the large-scale state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting in China, according to analysts. Liu Xiangfeng, a surgeon at a top Chinese hospital who was accused of corruption and removing patients’ healthy organs, was sentenced to 17 years in prison in China. Meanwhile, the parents of the whistleblower—who died in suspicious circumstances after collating evidence against Liu and the hospital—had gone into hiding on Nov. 3 just before the police went to arrest them, a source familiar with the matter told The Epoch Times. The parents had published allegations on social media that the hospital traded organs and assigned medical students to source pediatric organ donors and that their son may have been murdered because he tried to blow the whistle....