Murdoch's Sky News does an excellent expose. "They beat me for days."

China's penal system is surrounded by a wall of secrecy, but a hidden mass slaughter is being carried out, somewhere between three and a-half and ten thousand people being put to death every year.

So many that China is inventing new ways of killing, mobilizing its execution system. This brochure acquired by Sky News reveals the details of new execution buses now operating across China. Fitted with lethal injection equipment, they can deliver on-the-spot executions.

But there may be another reason for them. They make it easier to remove the organs of executed prisoners. In an exclusive report earlier this year, Sky News gathered evidence linking China's execution system and its booming transplant organ industry.

Filming secretly, we posed as the relatives of a man requiring a new liver. Doctors said they could provide the organ with just a few weeks' notice. One reason organs are aquired so quickly, they said, is that they're taken from executed prisoners. Amnesty International says the demand for transplant organs may be driving the high number of executions in China.

After that, they talk to a defense attorney who has since been barred from practicing. He says 99% of all people arrested are convicted. Just after the interview, he himself is arrested and disappears into the Chinese "justice" system. His family has no idea of where he is.

This is the penalty in China for talking to the international press.

A previous blog entry on the Italian-supplied "death buses" can be found here.

Shame on the US media for not covering this.

China is also a major supplier of those dead-body displays, composed bodies of "uncertain provenance" that you see in your local museums. Yes, those are Chinese citizens, most likely killed for your enjoyment.