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" Nine people have gone on trial in China&amp;#039;s Hunan province after they allegedly helped a teenager sell one of his kidneys in order to buy Apple gadgets.  Domestic news agency Xinhua (via CNN) reports that prosecutors in the case said at the court in the Beihu District yesterday (August 9) that they want the people to be &amp;quot;held criminally liable for intentional injury&amp;quot;.  The 17-year-old high school student, referred to only by his surname Wang, was paid just 22,000 yuan (\u00A32,206) for his kidney, which he used to buy an iPhone and an iPad.  However, the student suffered renal failure after the kidney was removed in April 2011, according to Xinhua. The case only came to light after his mother questioned how he could afford the Apple devices.  The defendants include the surgeon and five medical staff from a provincial hospital where the 17-year-old went under the knife. The alleged mastermind of the operation, named He Wei, was described as being &amp;quot;penniless and frustrated over gambling debts&amp;quot;.  The prosecutors said that this prompted him to seek &amp;quot;financial gain via the illegal kidney trade&amp;quot;, and that he recruited two other people to trawl the internet chat rooms to find a suitable &amp;#039;donor&amp;#039;.  Alongside paying Wang the small fee, the group allegedly gave the surgeon, named Song Zhongyu, 52,000 yuan for removing the organ and transplanting it into the recipient.  This fee is about eight months&amp;#039; wages for Chinese workers at factories making Apple products.  At the hearing, Wang&amp;#039;s attorney called for the nine conspirators to be held criminally liable and requested compensation of 2.2 million yuan (\u00A3220,663) for his client.  The police had detained Song and He Wei in July 2011, along with Su Kaizong, the contractor of the urology department at the hospital, and two others. Four other defendants - two nurses, a surgical assistant and an anaesthesiologist - were later detained. The hearing ended today (August 10) and the court will announce its verdict at a later date.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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