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Executed Chinese prisoners likely used in UK exhibition (2021)

Cadavers on display in 'Real Bodies' show were provided by Dalian-based firm known to have acquired corpses from police

Imagine Exhibitions CEO, Tom Zaller, admitted in an interview that the bodies were ‘absolutely from China’ but added that there was ‘no documentation’ to prove their identities or to show they had agreed in life to donate their corpses in death.” For future shows in the state, the company would be required to “obtain documentation demonstrating the cause of death and origins of the cadavers and body parts it displays as well as proof that the decedent consented to the use of his or her remains in such a manner”. The press release noted that all of the corpses included in a version of the show then on display at New York City’s South Street Seaport were licensed by Premier Exhibitions from the Dalian Hoffen Bio-Technique Company which, in turn, had “acquired [them] indirectly from the Chinese Bureau of Police”.

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