09.21
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
On September 15, a blogger posted a video recounting how, after their father's death, their aunt arranged a ghost marriage for him, and their grandmother's grave was illegally excavated, with her remains sold for a ghost marriage. In the comments section, multiple netizens described their own relatives' remains being stolen and sold or being forced into ghost marriages, exposing the vicious custom in some regions of treating female corpses as commodities.
09.15
·Hearsay
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
In the comment section of a blogger's video on September 15, a netizen recounted that their grandmother's remains were sold by their uncle for over 100,000 yuan, and after being recovered they were stolen again; after their grandfather passed away, they could only make a large dough figure to be buried with him.
09.15
·Hearsay
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
In the comment section of a blogger's video on September 15, a netizen claimed that after their childhood friend died at the age of 20, she was arranged for a 'ghost marriage,' with the groom's family paying 160,000 yuan.
09.11
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·Taoyuan
Taiwan's Taoyuan District Prosecutors Office reported on September 9th that they had dismantled an organ trafficking ring composed of seven adult defendants. The group recruited victims online, planning to control them and smuggle them to mainland China for organ harvesting. Those involved have been investigated and dealt with according to law.
2024.08.08
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
On August 8, 2024, lawyer Yi Shenghua released case materials, exposing how Shanxi Aorui Biomaterial Company colluded with funeral homes in Sichuan, Shandong, Guangxi and other places to illegally purchase and dismember thousands of cremated corpses for producing allogeneic bone implant materials.