Still in China, but with a rather disturbing story whereby five people have been charged with illegal organ trading after a teenager who was desperate to have the latest iPhone and iPad ended up selling his kidney.

The sad young chap by the name of Wang was paid 3,500 US dollars for his organ, he is just 17-years-old and lives with his family in Anhui, which is one of China’s poorest regions.

The five people charged with the organ trading offences are a surgeon (who removed Wang’s kidney), a hospital contractor and three brokers. Needless to say, the 3,500 dollars paid to Wang was very little compared to the 35,000 that the broker who convinced him to go ahead was paid. The name of the recipient of the organ is not known.

The trade is perfectly placed to seduce young Chinese people who all crave, but can little afford, all the latest devices and in just a few hours of online chat with Wang they realised he was an easy target.

China has been in trouble with human rights organizations previously for harvesting the organs of dead prisoners without the consent of family.

There are 1.5 million people in China who require a transplant at any one time, but there are only around 10,000 operations carried out each year, most of the organs coming from the said prisoners, with the main problem being the lack of voluntary donors.

Whatever the rights and wrongs of this one, China did make organ trading an offense back in 2007, but this doesn’t seemed to have curbed the rise in very needy youngsters seeing this very dangerous practice as an easy way to get their hands on the luxury goods they so crave.