china, falun gong, forced organ harvesting, katrina bramstedt
For most of us, the state-sanctioned killing of prisoners of conscience in China for the sole purpose of forced organ harvesting would be a red line issue. Yet, it doesn’t even get the attention it deserves. Is that because the evidence of this crime is that flimsy? No, there’s more than enough evidence confirming that it ...
The Trump administration has expressed concern about long-standing allegations that people imprisoned by the Chinese authorities for their faith are being murdered for their organs, which is called forced organ harvesting. On July 20, U.S. State Department officials condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Falun Gong, as adherents marked 21 years since the beginning ...
Falun Gong is a spiritual faith in China that is brutally persecuted. More than 4,300 people are identified to have been killed by the Chinese regime just because of following this spiritual path. The numbers for unaccounted deaths are much higher. A group of Falun Gong practitioners created an animation called Little Lotus that exposes ...
Nobel Peace Prize nominee and international human rights lawyer David Matas has spent years researching and uncovering the crime of forced organ harvesting taking place in China against a group known as Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa. The practice itself is a peaceful one, teaching one to take the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance ...
The killing of prisoners of conscience through China’s organ harvesting was raised during a debate in the UK’s House of Lords, adding further awareness to an atrocity that first came to light over a decade ago. During an October 24 debate on the ongoing Hong Kong protests, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff told the House of ...
One of the worst mass atrocities of this century is being committed in China and the world needs to act to end it, a senior lawyer has told the UN. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people have been killed for their organs in China, London-based lawyer Hamid Sabi told the UN Human Rights Council on ...
This short film above covers key findings made by an independent tribunal in London into claims that the Chinese state has been engaged in state-sanctioned organ harvesting from a number of prisoners of conscience to take their bodily organs. The China Tribunal in June delivered its judgment, which stated it was proven beyond doubt that ...
Fifteen medical studies were retracted from two journals in August over concerns that their authors used organs from the organ harvesting of executed prisoners in China. The medical journals, Transplantation and PLOS ONE, pulled the studies that they had published from 2008-2014, the blog Retraction Watch reported. The report said that two of the studies ...
China has consistently denied organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners and other groups. About 4,316 people have been confirmed dead (as of Aug 11, 2019) due to this state-sanctioned organ extraction. However, the real number of victims is believed to be far higher, according to independent researchers. The independent China Tribunal that was set up ...