A Vital Trade: Selling Syrian organs on Lebanon's black market
More than a million Syrian refugees have ended up in Lebanon, where a flourishing black market has emerged -- buying and selling Syrian bodily organs....
More than a million Syrian refugees have ended up in Lebanon, where a flourishing black market has emerged -- buying and selling Syrian bodily organs.
They may have escaped the violence, but for many Syrian refugees, difficulties remain: food, shelter, money, stress and desperation. And for some, their bodies are the only resource they have.
This is Rebecca Collard's documentary A Vital Trade. She's a freelance journalist based in Beirut, Lebanon.
Note: we have agreed to protect the identities of the Syrian refugees and the organ broker.
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