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Citizenship

One organ sold every hour in illegal trade

How much would you charge for one of your kidneys? For Aliaksei Yafimau, a 30-year-old TV engineer from BelarusBelarus is an eastern European state that is a close ally of Russia. Run by Alexander Lukashenko, it is known as “the last dictatorship in Europe”., the answer was just 6,000. The money, he thought, would be a first step out of poverty and towards a better life.

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