Islamic Republic of Iran is using prisoners who are waiting their death penalty, donate their organs from their body for transplantation and Iranian doctors criticize the law in a letter.
A group of Iranian surgeons expressed their concern regarding the law in a letter to the chief of Iran’s judiciary, Seyed Ebrahim Raesi.
The doctors have expressed their concerns about the patients and those who are in need of receiving organs rather than the prisoners.
“Donation from prisoners who will be executed, regardless of their background and in any situation, has raised the society’s concern especially among the community of surgeons…,” the letter reads.
“Such law will threaten the dignity and pride of organ donation, which built up by the community of Iranian doctors in decades,” the letter explained.
It is not clear from the letter whether donating organs by the prisoners are obligatory or based on their desire.
