The beauty products from the skin of executed Chinese prisoners

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A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe. Agents for the firm have told would-be customers it is developing collagen for lip and wrinkle treatments from skin taken from prisoners after they have been shot. The agents say some of the company’s products have been exported to the UK, and that the use of skin from condemned convicts is “traditional” and nothing to “make such a big fuss about”.

The Chinese never failed to surprise me. But this is disgusting! On the other hand, how many are executed a year to make this industry run? The reports continues :

Although the exact number of people facing the death penalty in China is an official secret, Amnesty International believes around 3,400 were executed last year, with a further 6,000 on death row.

I’m sure it will never be public. Now it is a business, so the more the better!

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