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WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish prosecutors are investigating whether a controversial exhibition displaying human cadavers amounts to desecration of the human body, a spokesman said Friday.
"Bodies... the exhibition," which has toured a number of countries, consists of 13 corpses and around 250 body parts which have undergone a process known as "plastination" which preserves human tissue permanently using liquid silicone rubber.
"We are investigating this case to check whether the corpses were not desecrated and whether all procedures needed to mount such an exhibition in Poland were carried out," a spokesman for the Warsaw prosecutors' office, Mateusz Martyniuk, told Reuters.