Organ Harvesting

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OTTAWA—Two investigators who have spent 10 years researching evidence of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China told Parliament’s human rights subcommittee that the practice of killing for profit-driven transplants continues unabated in China today. International human rights lawyer David Matas and former Crown attorney and cabinet minister David Kilgour presented the findings […]

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A nongovernmental medical advocacy group has marked Oct. 1 as the “international day against forced organ harvesting.

A Chinese state-backed NGO recently endorsed use of organs from prisoners, contradicting public statements.

The organ transplant center at Tianjin First Central Hospital is known to have run a profitable and deadly business.

OTTAWA—Falun Gong practitioners delivered to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office on Aug. 26 over 120,000 signatures gathered from across Canada calling on him to help end the persecution of their spiritual discipline in China during his official visit to that country from Aug. 30 to Sept. 6. Later the same morning, they had reason to […]

Doctors are "condemning" the Chinese organ trade while covering up their own potentially shady connections to it.

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BRISBANE, Australia—American author and China analyst Ethan Gutmann says China’s illegal organ transplant trade continues, despite assurances from Chinese officials that it has stopped, and Gutmann says he has the evidence to prove it. In an update of his book “Slaughter,” which suggests the Chinese state uses illegal organ harvesting as a means of disposing […]

In June, a report examining over 700 hospitals in China was published alleging that the Communist Party has been conducting a secret industrialized slaughter of prisoners of conscience for their organs. The researchers met with no substantive rebuttal, and key leaders in the international transplantation field have given a nod to some of its important […]

For more than 15 years, Chinese military hospitals across China have kept a closely guarded secret. Doctors at private hospitals know about it, and even participate. But no one dares reveal it to the public.

WASHINGTON—After presiding over an industry of organ transplantation that researchers said has led to a vast death toll of prisoners of conscience, China’s Communist Party has now promised reform. No one has been punished, and no admission of wrongdoing has been made—in fact, the perpetrators are now in charge of the reform process. Question: Do […]

A decade ago, two Canadians released a report on illicit organ harvesting in China so shocking that many struggled to believe it. Since then, the investigation has continued and they’ve now updated their findings in a report that details the industry that has sprung up in China around the harvesting of human organs. David Kilgour, […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The authors of a new report about state-led organ harvesting in China presented their findings at the National Press Club on June 22, calling it a “slow motion genocide” that has led to likely over 1 million organs removed from unwilling donors. “This fits the pattern of King Leopold and the Congo, and the […]

WASHINGTON—Transplant surgeons in China are awash in human organs. Some complain of working 24-hour shifts, performing back-to-back transplant surgeries. Others ensure they’ve got spare organs available, freshly harvested—just in case. Some hospitals can source organs within just hours, while others report having two, three, or four backup organs, in case the first organ fails. All […]

Epoch Times: Can you introduce me to this new report that is coming out? Ethan Gutmann: Well, it doesn’t have a flashy title. It’s simply “Bloody Harvest/The Slaughter: An Update.” It’s very minimal. We are not trying to reproduce our earlier work. David Kilgour and David Matas wrote “Bloody Harvest” and they put a lot […]

News Analysis The former Chinese Communist Party leader responsible for ordering the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and the harvesting of their organs has become the target of current leader Xi Jinping’s purge of the Party. Jiang Zemin was forcibly removed from his residence by Chinese paramilitary troops in the early morning of June 10, […]

The U.S. House of Representatives has added its voice to the chorus of censure of a grave and extraordinary human rights violation in China.

Awareness of one of the gravest—yet little known—mass atrocities taking place in the world came to Minnesota recently, after the state senate put up for vote, and passed, a resolution condemning the organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China. “Some of you may not know about Falun Gong,” said Senator Alice Johnson at the […]