Petitions to Investigate and Condemn Organ Harvesting in China Gain Momentum

Human rights lawyer David Matas submitted more than 160,000 signatures to the U.N. Nearly 1,000 are needed in the United States.

166,461 signatures from 36 countries backing the Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) petition calling on the U.N. to investigate and condemn forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China. They wait in the Wagner Room of the Metropole Hotel in Geneva, Switzerland, to be taken to the U.N. Office of the High Commission for Human Rights after the panel on Organ Trafficking in China, on Dec. 17 2012. Tanghong/The Epoch Times