What is the crime of selling your organs?

The crime of organizing the sale of human organs refers to organizing the sale of human organs to obtain illegal benefits with the consent or commitment of the victim. This crime is a behavioral crime, and the accomplished standard is not the occurrence of damage results. Anyone who organizes others to buy or sell human organs for profit should be included in the scope of this crime. In view of the variety and complexity of crimes involving human organs, it has seriously threatened people's lives, health and safety.

The act of selling human organs will constitute the crime of selling human organs by organizations. The contents of the constitutive requirements are:

1, human organ, refers to the collection of different types of tissues in the human body, which can play a specific physiological function;

2. There are no special restrictions on organized others;

3. Organizing others to sell human organs refers to the act of selling human organs or causing others to sell human organs by means of recruitment, employment, introduction or inducement.

"Human organs" should be understood in a broad sense. Different countries have different definitions of "human organs", and there are some differences in the concept of "organs" in medicine and law. From a medical point of view, an organ refers to an organic structure composed of a variety of biological tissues on the body of an animal or a plant, which is used to complete a specific physiological function. Human organs are very complex and diverse, and it is meaningless to study organs in the legal sense without medical treatment.

Legal basis: According to the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Article 234-1 Whoever organizes others to sell human organs shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years and fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years, and shall also be fined or confiscated.