Yes, it seems to be true–China kills political prisoners & sells the skin as cosmetics in the West.
Three cheers for our lovely trading partners.
What, you got something against recycling?
I smell a new slogan: China, going from Red to Green.
Once on the lips, forever on the Brits.
It’s that or feed them to Mr. Wu’s pigs.
Which, in turn, we might end up eating.
Enemy of the State - It’s what’s for dinner!
Chinese prisoners – the other Red meat.
Those Reds can really get under one’s skin.
Gonna wash that man right out of my hair…
Besides ethical issues, are there health issues here as well? Is there a significant risk of disease transmission possible?
Probably no more than with Jello.
Say, there’s a thought. Is Jello really from cattle? 
[Charlton Heston]Soylent Lancome is made from people![/CH] 
By the way, YUCK!!!
Nothing on Snopes yet.
There’s *always * room for PRIONS!
Give’em a chance - the newspaper report only dates from yesterday!! (And I’d trust the Guardian over Snopes, anyway)
What could the legal reasons possibly be?
So far, Squink wins.
Dr. Lecter’s cosmetics of choice.
Doesn’t the collagen used in U.S.-made cosmetics come from cadavers? But instead of being executed prisoners, they’re suckers who thought that signing a donor card meant that their body would help save lives, not be sold off as raw materials to some corporation. (Technically it’s illegal to sell human tissue; they get around it by “donating” the tissue and charging an enormous “handling fee”.)
Assuming the Jello is really from cattle, I’d think there’s much less risk from Jello because the material is from a different species, and not all diseases can infect multiple species. IIRC, very few of them can.