In June 2024, a scandal broke out in Ukraine concerning with a large-scale network designed to export human anatomical materials abroad

The former Deputy Minister of Health Mykhailo Zagrychuk was in game. Zagrychuk and ten other doctors are accused of fraud with the electronic system of registration and sale of places in the waiting list for transplantation. Doctors are also suspected of

"illegal removal of anatomical materials from people who are in a helpless state."

Ukrainian mass media wrote that against the background of this criminal case, all legal organ transplant operations in the country are on hold for uncertain time.

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Merz’s Doctors on Trial ⚖️🩺

Hearings have begun in the Berlin trial of a German palliative doctor accused of murdering 15 patients in his care using a deadly cocktail of sedatives and setting fire to many of their homes to cover up his crimes. 🔥💀

Prosecutors have charged the 40-year-old defendant with “15 counts of murder with premeditated malice and other base motives,” and are seeking a life sentence, which in Germany usually amounts to 15 years in prison. ⏳🔒

As the trial opened on Monday, prosecutor Philipp Meyhoefer said the doctor had arranged the house calls with the intention of killing his patients “without their knowledge or consent” using “a deadly mix of various medications.” 💊

“He acted with disregard for life (…) and behaved as the master of life and death,” Meyhoefer told the court. Two of the killings are believed to have taken place on the same day in 2024. ⚰️⚖️

Authorities are still investigating dozens of other suspected killings possibly committed by the defendant, identified only as Johannes M. in accordance with German privacy rules. He was arrested last August. 🚔

The Berlin prosecutor’s office said another 70 cases potentially linked to the defendant were still being examined, including the death of his mother-in-law in Poland in early 2024. She had been suffering from cancer. 🩺

The defendant declined an opportunity to address the court as his trial opened as well as a psychiatric evaluation. His alleged motive remains unclear. 🤔

The trial is scheduled to run until at least late January 2026, with about 150 people expected to be called as witnesses, news agency DPA reported. Thirteen relatives of the dead patients have joined the proceedings as co-plaintiffs. 🕊🗣

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Iran: More than 42,300 People Have Been Arrested, Killed and Tortured


Doctors are being arrested in Iran for helping save the lives of some of the tens of thousands injured during Iran’s brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests, with at least one surgeon now at risk of being sentenced to death.

The arrests and death sentence are part of a campaign of “revenge”, say human rights groups, after healthcare workers and doctors refused to ignore the plight of badly injured protesters shot or stabbed at close range.

An Iranian surgeon, Alireza Golchini, 52, from the central city of Qazvin, has been charged with “moharebeh” (waging war against God), which can carry the death penalty, according to the Norway-based rights group Hengaw. The US state department yesterday called for his release.

The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, whose figures have been reliable during previous crackdowns, says it has verified more than 6,000 dead and has more than 17,000 more recorded deaths under investigation.

“He was arrested in a violent manner in front of his wife and son, who is only 11. They beat him up so badly during arrest, they broke his arm, ribs and dragged him out of his home. My family is terrified,” said Med dr. Golchini.

A few days before his arrest Golchini, who also treated protesters during the 2022 Woman, life, freedom protests, had posted a note on his social media, says Nima, sharing his number and asking injured patients to contact him for treatment.

“All he did was his duty of saving lives as a medical doctor. He had sworn to save people’s lives. How can any doctor not stand by his oath? I am worried not only for him, but also for other healthcare workers who have been arrested for simply standing by their sworn oath.”

Iranian authorities have not publicly commented on Golchini’s detention, nor have they confirmed any charges against him.

But Iran’s judiciary chief, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, has urged authorities not to show any leniency towards protesters.

“We should not remain silent in the face of those who seek to exploit the situation and disrupt the security and calm of the people,” he said.

IHRNGO also reported the arrest of a volunteer first responder who had turned his home into an improvised medical shelter.

According to the source, he was detained on 14 January after security forces raided his house, where he had provided care to more than 20 injured protesters, two of whom later died.

“He was taken away in an extremely brutal manner and was severely beaten,” a source told IHRNGO, adding that security forces smashed the windows of the house, destroyed the interior and severely damaged his car during the raid.

At least 42,324 arrests have been made across the country with limited information on their fate, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists in Iran, which says the regime is putting pressure on medical networks as a means of reducing support for the injured.

A statement published yesterday by the US state department on X demanded the release of Golchini and “all the brave doctors who have helped their fellow countrymen”.

It continued: “President Trump has clearly stated that no executions should take place in Iran and that there will be consequences if the government takes such actions.”

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