In June 2021, over 70 organizations urged for co-sponsorship of the bipartisan Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2021. The House bill H.R.1592 is sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and the Senate bill S.602 is sponsored by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE). Read the full…
On June 14, 2021, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a press statement announcing that a correspondence was issued to China regarding allegations of forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians in China. UN human rights experts*, including nine UN Special Rapporteurs reviewed credible…
An amendment to combat China’s forced organ harvesting has passed through the House of Lords in UK Parliament, with government support. Following considerable pressure from across the House of Lords, the UK government has backed an amendment to the Medicines and Medical Devices Bill, which will mark the first UK legislative response to the China…
The Arithmetic of Compassion website raises awareness of psychological obstacles to compassion, including psychic numbing, pseudoinefficacy, and the prominence effect. “A famous saying goes, “One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” Due to psychic numbing, our sympathy for suffering and loss declines precipitously when we are presented with increasing numbers of…
Recently published in Genocide Studies and Provention: An International Journal (GSP). GSP is the official journal of The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) Abstract. The article explores patterns of a cold genocide in the eradication campaign against Falun Gong. Falun Gong is a spiritual practice that has been targeted for eradication by the Chinese…
The following is the Human Rights Law Foundation’s public statement on abusive organ transplant practices in China — 2018 Since the year 2000 the People’s Republic of China has engaged in state-led efforts to industrialize its system of organ procurement and transplantation. This has involved a variety of intensive efforts to modernize its transplantation system, provide…
“A Darkly Sinister Accusation” by Ethan Gutmann – FOR THE RECORD – Response to “China used to harvest organs from prisoners. Under pressure, that practice is finally ending” by Simon Denyer of the Washington Post (September 14, 2017). View joint letters and correspondence from the Washington Post here Back when I was working in…
Breaking story: Chinese authorities have expelled Ben Rogers – Deputy Chair of the Tory Human Rights Commission and EOP advisory board member – from Hong Kong. The world reacts. “If China is now in control of Hong Kong immigration, it means that the idea of Hong Kong people running Hong Kong is dead.” ~Ben…
SUBMISSION by EOP’s Australian Advocacy and Initiatives Committee (AAIC) AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT INQUIRY – Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade – Inquiry into Human Organ Trafficking and Organ Transplant Tourism VIEW/DOWNLOAD FULL SUBMISSION Submission_Human Organ Trafficking and Organ Transplant Tourism Table of Contents About the Australian Advocacy and Initiatives Committee Executive…
BY ETHAN GUTMANN A briefing via Skype at Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra. While I appreciate your invitation, listening to anyone on Skype can be tedious, so I’ll be brief. Three years ago, I gave testimony in Canberra on how the forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience evolved from a handful of Uyghur political…
SUBMISSION by EOP’s Australian Advocacy and Initiatives Committee (AAIC) AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT INQUIRY – Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade – The Status of the Human Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief VIEW/DOWNLOAD FULL SUBMISSION Submission_TheStatusOfTheHumanBeingToFreedomOfReligionOrBelief_2017 Executive Summary The AAIC is grateful for the opportunity to make this submission and…
The following is Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights’ public statement on forced organ harvesting in China — 2017 The state-sanctioned organ pillaging particularly targeting the most vulnerable group in China, and especially singling out the Falun Gong is a standing assault on human rights, the Rule of Law, and China’s international treaty obligations. In a word,…
BY DAVID MATAS Chinese transplant professionals and health officials have made an effort to be engaged in international transplant events. Chinese government spokesman Huang Jiefu and others were active participants in The Transplantation Society Congress in Hong Kong in August 2016 and the Vatican sponsored Pontifical Academy of Sciences summit on organ trafficking and transplant…
In the Chapter “The money trail: Expenditures, exploitation, and organ harvesting”, the report states, “It is in the context of dehumanizing propaganda, severe abuse in custody, and economic inducements that the ultimate form of financial exploitation has been reported: the killing of Falun Gong detainees and the extraction of their organs to be sold at…
BY END ORGAN PILLAGING/PRESS RELEASE For investigative journalism and advocacy of a better China, Ethan Gutmann has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2004, Gutmann’s book Losing the New China exposed American corporate collusion in the construction of China’s controlled Internet, and contributed to Congress cross-examination of the legal representatives of Yahoo, Microsoft,…
The Guardian – Medical Journal to Retract Paper Over Concerns Organs Came from Executed Prisoners Science Magazine – Study Retraction Reignites Concern Over China’s Possible Use of Prisoner Organs The BMJ – Journal Retracts Chinese Paper Because Transplanted Livers Couldn’t Be Traced China says it has stopped harvesting organs, but evidence belies…
Press coverage Read media reports featuring Vatican Organ Trafficking Summit BMJ – Vatican faces outcry for inviting Chinese official to organ summit CTV NEWS – Sparks fly as Vatican conference challenges China on organs harvested from prisoners DAILY MAIL – Vatican row as China invited to organ transplant meet BBC – Vatican defends…
BY EPOCH TIMES A foreign patient receives a life-extending organ transplant in a Chinese hospital. Feeling grateful, he asks a hospital staff member who the donor was so that he may give thanks and repayment. But no one at the hospital—not even the transplant doctor—knows the donor’s identity. Before his flight home, the patient is…
BY EPOCH TIMES LONDON—Chinese-born Canadian actress Anastasia Lin is high on China’s most-wanted list. After being crowned Miss World Canada in 2015, instead of pursuing a glamorous life as a beauty queen, she chose to speak out about the human rights abuses in her native country. On Sept. 6, she was invited to Westminster for…
BY DAFOH Despite international condemnation of forced organ harvesting, transplant congress in Hong Kong honors China’s transplant mastermind. Doctors call upon The Transplantation Society to first demand full disclosure and transparency on organ procurement violations before welcoming China’s transplant authorities. WASHINGTON, July 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH), a leading medical…