Three to stand trial for human organ trading

BEIJING - Three people charged with an illegal operation as well as the forgery of seals and documents in two separate cases of human organ trafficking will stand trial in a local Beijing court next Tuesday, a prosecutor said.

These will be the country's second and third cases on the illegal human organ trade, following the first case in March in the capital's Haidian district court.

One case involves Zeng Kangkang, 20, from Shanxi province. The unemployed man had also sold part of his liver for 40,000 yuan ($5,860) through an illegal agency in Tianjin, Zhong Lijun, a prosecutor from the procuratorate of Haidian district, told China Daily on Thursday.