Health officials in China have admitted to investigators that they source organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for transplant purposes, says a new report. From October 19 to December 2 last year, investigators spoke via phone with presidents or directors of a number of Chinese hospitals, says the report released last month by the U.S-based ...
Substantial numbers of prisoners of conscience in China have been the victims of forced organ harvesting was the unanimous finding made by an independent people’s tribunal in England. Speaking after three days of hearings and evaluating evidence, former English judge Sir Geoffrey Nice QC said that the China Tribunal’s interim judgment was one beyond a ...
An independent tribunal to inquire into forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China will hold public hearings in London next month. “The tribunal will investigate if any criminal offences have been committed by state or state-approved organisations in China concerning forced organ harvesting,” said a statement from the International Coalition to End Transplant ...
There are some 32,000 people on waiting lists for an organ transplant in South Korea, but the vast majority of them will die before an organ becomes available. On average, a sick person needing a kidney transplant in South Korea has to typically wait five years. But if they go to an organ transplant center ...
There’s a good reason why an Australian academic described a high profile Chinese surgeon as a serial killer. That surgeon is Huang Jiefu, the architect of China’s industrial-scale organ harvesting industry that researchers say sources most of its organs through killing prisoners of conscience. Maria A. Fiatarone Singh, a professor of medicine at the University of ...
The Real Bodies Exhibition has again attracted controversy, this time in the UK where a doctor has questioned the source of the plastinated corpses put on show. Dr. David Nicholl, a consultant neurologist at a Birmingham hospital, told The Guardian (in an article now only online via the South China Morning Post) that the plastinated ...
Ethan Gutmann, a China analyst and human-rights investigator, briefed the Prague Senate earlier this month about forced organ harvesting in China. The following is an edited version of his presentation. Three years ago, I spoke to the Senate about Chinese organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience. What has occurred since then — both in terms ...
David Kilgour faced skepticism from various quarters when he first co-authored one of several reports that said prisoners of conscience were being killed on demand for organ harvesting in China. Twelve years from the release of his first report in 2006, the former Canadian Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific) and other independent researchers have gone on ...
A Washington-based law foundation has called for those suspected of being involved in abusive transplant practices in China’s organ harvesting to be held accountable. Led by a group of high-profile lawyers, the China-focused Human Rights Law Foundation (HRLW) released a statement outlining why action against Chinese officials is required by first explaining what has occurred ...
Ravage is a visceral and hard-hitting short film by Peabody Award-winning director Leon Lee and stars human rights advocate, actress, and Canadian beauty pageant titleholder Anastasia Lin. The film is just over 7 minutes in length and has all the settings of a psychological horror story as we enter the psyche of a victim of torture. ...
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