Transnational Repression and Me – Remarks by David Matas 6 December 2025: At a forum hosted by Choose Humanity, David Matas joined fellow experts on a panel to explore how the CCP’s unrestricted warfare and foreign interference threaten Canada’s democracy, media, and values. During the discussion, Matas stated “I personally have been subject to…
Image: Screenshot from 7NEWS Youtube video of podcast 7NEWS The Issue Podcast – “Fighting Against the Horror of Forced Organ Harvesting” 29 November 2025: David Matas joins 7NEWS National Security Editor Tim Lester on The Issue podcast to deep dive into the background of forced organ harvesting in China, and what Australia’s response…
David Matas: ACLM 2025 ASM, Kuala Lumpur Parliamentary Briefing and the World Conference on Bioethics – November 2025 Preventing and remedying cross border transplant abuse in Australasia – at the Australasian College of Legal Medicine 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting, Singapore Legislative precedents addressing cross border transplant abuse – briefing for Parliamentarians in Kuala Lumpur,…
Image: Matas with poster presentation “Transplant Nurses and Transplant Law Reform” at the Transplant Nurses Associations Conference in Brisbane, Australia. Matas received communication from the Association prior to the conference that included an admonition that ‘no political grandstanding will be tolerated’- a warning uniquely directed at him and not issued to other presenters. Chinese…
European Laws Against Cross Border Organ Transplant Abuse (Text basis for a poster presentation at the ELPAT (Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Aspects of Organ Transplantation) conference in Seville, Spain, October 9th to 11th) by David Matas Background: The laws in Europe on cross border organ transplant abuse are underdeveloped. One reason is the relative…
Image: Attendees at the World Congress on Medical Law 2025. Laws Enacted and Proposed Prohibiting and Remedying Transplant Tourism and Complicity in Organ Transplant Abuse Abroad (Presentation to the World Congress on Medical Law 2025 , Istanbul, Türkiye, August 7th) By David Matas The evidence of mass killing in China of prisoners of conscience for…
Transnational Repression of Falun Gong by the CCP and Forced Organ Harvesting 15 July 2025: International human rights lawyer Dr. David Matas joined British lawmakers and other rights activists in a seminar at the UK Parliament, addressing the growing threat of transitional repression by the Chinese communist regime. The seminar took place ahead of…
New Developments in Organ Transplantation in China (E-Poster at the 30th International Congress of The Transplantation Society, September 22nd to 25th, 2024) by David Matas Click HERE to view the full E-Poster. Additional links to pages 2,5,9 and 10, text only: Page 2 – Introduction, Method, Results and Conclusion Page 5 – Comments on…
Australia, China and Forced Organ Harvesting (Report on a visit to Australia, June 2nd to 22nd, 2024) by David Matas ETAC Co-founder and international human rights lawyer, David Matas, visited Australia recently to meet with Australian MPs and Senators regarding the ongoing forced organ harvesting happening in China and what can, and should be…
Forced Organ Harvesting in China: The Facts and the Law (Remarks prepared for presentation to two fora at Harvard University, one at the East Asia Library March 7th, 2024 and a second at the Medical School March 8th) By David Matas I am a lawyer in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in private practice. My clients…
Genocide in the Media: Reporting Variations (Remarks prepared for an International Academic Forum conference on arts, media and culture, Kyoto, Japan, October, 2023) By David Matas Click HERE to view the virtual presentation on the International Academic Forum (IAFOR) Vimeo channel. Mass killings of innocents based on their identity characteristics are sometimes well…
The Communist Chinese Party’s Weaponizing of Organ Genocide Against the Unwanted (Remarks prepared for a webinar hosted by the Committee for the Present Danger: China January 5, 2023) by David Matas Click HERE to watch the webinar on the Committee for the Present Danger: China website. The evidence of the mass killing of…
Australia, New Zealand and Transplant Abuse in China (Revised remarks prepared for a Parliamentary briefing in Canberra, November 23, 2022, and Adelaide, South Australia November 29, 2022 and a public forum in Auckland, New Zealand, December 1, 2022) by David Matas I. Introduction One reason, though far from the only, that I and…
Organ Transplant Abuse in China and Legal Responses (Remarks prepared for delivery to the World Congress for Medical Law, Gold Coast, Australia, December 7th, 2022) by David Matas The Congress theme for the papers presented today is medicine and technology. The technology I wish to address is the technology of organ transplantation. The…
Acting Against Transplant Abuse in China (Remarks prepared for a Parliamentary briefing Canberra, Australia November 23, 2022) by David Matas Thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak to you today about transplant abuse in China. I have been working on this issue now for more than sixteen years, and have met before…
Jiang Zemin – Leader of the Mass Killing of Innocents by David Matas Originally published in the Epoch Times – https://www.theepochtimes.com/jiang-zemin-leader-in-the-mass-killing-of-innocents_4896232.html The death of Jiang Zemin, former leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), reminds us of the instrumental role he played in the mass killing of prisoners of conscience for their organs. That mass killing wouldn’t…
Innovation and Value: Organ Transplant Abuse in China (Remarks prepared for an International Academic Forum conference on arts, media and culture, Kyoto, Japan, October 20, 2022) By David Matas This paper is intended as a contribution to the International Academic Forum Innovation and Value Initiative. The approach of the Initiative, as described on the…
The Killing in China of Prisoners of Conscience for their Organs: Smoking Guns by David Matas Individual snapshots of organ transplant abuse in China and attempts at cover up can not show volume or scale or scope of the abuse. Yet these individual snapshots can provide insights that a description of the overall situation…
David Kilgour by David Matas I have known David Kilgour all my adult life. From the get go, I could see that he was a friendly, outgoing, gregarious personality. David K. was an undergraduate at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg in the early 1960s the same time as I, a bit ahead of me,…
Ethical standards and organ transplant abuse (Remarks for a presentation to the United Nations Conference on Bioethics, Medical Ethics and Health Law, Porto, Portugal March 9, 2022) by David Matas Chinese health practitioners have been killing prisoners of conscience for their organs in the thousands every year from the start of this century. This…