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Chinese authorities are cracking down on social media posts that make reference to claims that a medical supplies firm engaged in a terrible business of dead bodies that is being looked into by authorities in various provinces.
According to many media reports that followed up on a reporting Aug. 7 social media post by attorney Yi Shenghua, researchers from the Ministry of Public Security are looking into accounts that Shanxi Aurui Materials had been involved in trading thousands of dead body or body parts.
With tons of body in Sichuan only and more than 70 families requesting remedy, Yi, the president of the Beijing Yongzhe Law Organization, claimed that bodies were being sent to the organization from death homes across Shanxi, Sichuan, and Guangxi provinces.  ,
Their legs were being used to make medical bone implant, according to media reports.
The remains the family receive may not be those of their family, or their keeps may be incomplete, Yi cited an unknown fellow attorney working on the case as saying.
Yi later added additional information that came in after another attorneys contacted him with comparable tales from various parts of the nation. None of the content is now accessible.
However, according to Yi Shenghua, his content and the subsequent press reports that followed up on them have sparked a furious outcry on Chinese social media, which has prompted state censors to step in.
” I can still see my Weibo publish but nobody else can”, Yi posted on Aug. 9. It appears that movements are being made from higher up.
Grilled by officers
Yi later reported that the subject had vanished from the Weibo list of “hot queries” and that his neighborhood ministry of criminal affairs, which regulates attorneys and their conduct, had taken him in for a barbecuing.
In another post, he said he would n’t be giving interviews to foreign media organizations.
Some people thanked Yi for his comments on Weibo, but people claimed they had archived his original articles. None of his posts are still visible on the platform.
When you click on the links, you’ll receive an error message that reads,” Sorry, but information related to this topic may be displayed,” even though advertising information about the allegations were also obvious.
A 404 termination notice was issued on August 9 for links to a Caixin.com content on the situation that was posted to Weibo.
The Taiyuan Public Security Bureau in the northeastern state of Shanxi, according to an statement from the standard media outlet, The Paper , on May 23. Cases in that state had been sent to the state attorney for evaluation and trial.
” The case has n’t yet been concluded, and police are still investigating the suspects”, the bureau was quoted as saying. However, a website to the post returned a 404 error message when clicked by RFA on Monday.
Dismembered body
Shanxi Aorui stands accused of “illegally purchasing human bones and body parts from Sichuan, Guangxi, Shandong and other locations for processing into bone implants worth 380 million yuan ( US$ 53 million ) between January 2015 and July 2023,  , The Paper , said.
More than 18 kilograms of human legs and more than 34, 000 pieces of finished goods were taken from the company, according to the report, and a suspect identified only by his nickname Su planned for more than 4, 000 people remains to be taken from four dead houses in Yunnan, Chongqing, Guizhou, and Sichuan between 2017 and 2019 according to authorities.
Hong Kong ‘s , South China Morning Post , reported that crematorium staff in Shuifu in Yunnan province, Banan district in Chongqing, Shiqian county in Guizhou and Daying county in Sichuan, had” roughly dismembered the bodies so they could be transported to Su’s company for further processing,” citing case documents and Chinese media reports.
A further 75 suspects were detained as part of the investigation, which is also looking into claims that the Shandong Liver Center illegally sold corpses to the company, according to the papers.
Li Baoxing, the director of Qingdao liver center, was listed as a suspect in the documents, according to the report.
Li has previously received numerous state accolades for his contributions to medical science, and the state has listed him among the” Model Workers” of China in 2005, as the paper quoted The Paper as saying.
