21.   Organ donations are so rare that human rights groups allege executed prisoners supply most transplant organs in China.

22.   Organ transplants -- Organs of executed prisoners are used for transplants only with prior permission from the prisoners or their families, the government report said.

23.   A Chinese doctor lied when he told the U.S. Congress that he removed skin from an executed prisoner who was still breathing, Chinese officials said Wednesday.

24.   Angry over a report alleging that China transplants organs from executed prisoners, Beijing accused a U.S. broadcaster Thursday of having hidden motives.

25.   Beijing consistently denies selling organs, and says they are transplanted from executed prisoners only if they or their families consent.

26.   Beijing said Thursday that a Chinese doctor was lying when he told Congress about the harvesting of organs from executed prisoners in China.

27.   Chinese officials say organs are transplanted from executed prisoners only if they and their family consent.

28.   Commissioner Khulekani Sitole said a law that made the bodies of executed prisoners state property would soon be repealed, allowing families to claim the remains of their relatives.

29.   Dozens of Thais travel to China each year to receive kidneys that doctors at the society say come from executed prisoners.

30.   He added that all transplants are done according to law but referred questions on the use of organs from executed prisoners to judicial authorities.