The New, Go-To Place for Illegal Organs
A massive wave of desperate Syrian refugees could create a new market in Lebanon for the illegal human organ trade On a recent night in south Beirut, a group of young men sat exchanging bits of neighborhood gossip in a tiny café. Slumped into a corner, and wearing a ball cap pulled down low, one of them slowly nodded along in obvious physical pain. Like a growing number of Syrian refugees here desperate for cash, he had just sold one of his kidneys on the black market.
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