Congress has introduced a resolution that would condemn the Chinese Communist Party for harvesting the organs of prisoners of conscience. If it passes in a vote, H.Res.343 would be the first time that the U.S. Congress has publicly addressed this particular abuse in China, which researchers have characterized as one of the country’s most severe human rights violations.
The resolution was submitted by the office of Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), and is based on the language of a similar resolution from the previous Congress.
The full title is “Expressing concern regarding persistent and credible reports of systematic, state-sanctioned organ harvesting from non-consenting prisoners of conscience in the People’s Republic of China, including from large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners and members of other religious and ethnic minority groups.”
It would have the House of Representatives condemn state-sanctioned organ harvesting in China, call for a cessation of the practice, demand an end to the persecution of Falun Gong—the group most heavily targeted by organ harvesting—and call for an investigation into organ transplant abuses.
