Image (L-R): Speakers Sir Geoffrey Nice KC, Dr Matthew Robertson, and Wayne Jordash KC at the IPAC Summit 2025. IPAC Summit 2025 – Speeches by Sir Geoffrey Nice KC, Dr Matthew Robertson, and Wayne Jordash KC 07 November 2025: At the fifth annual Summit of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), three distinguished…
IPAC Lawmakers Pledge to Advance Legislation to Prohibit & Prevent Forced Organ Harvesting and Organ Trafficking Members of the Inter-parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) from 28 countries met last week in Brussels for the fifth annual Summit. Cross-party Lawmakers discussed a range of human rights issues including upholding peace and stability in the Taiwan…
Retraction Watch: Suspect Organ Transplant Papers Remain in the Literature 24 October 2025: Retraction Watch has reported on the progress of paper retractions on organ transplantation, based on literature flagged in a 2019 scoping review by Rogers et al. The scoping review had concluded that 445 Chinese papers reporting research on Chinese transplant recipients…
Image: Screenshots of a retraction notice by Elsevier on the ScienceDirect platform for several articles published in the journal Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology. Elsevier Retracts Eight Chinese Transplant Papers Click HERE to view the retraction notice 10 October, 2025: Publisher Elseiver has retracted eight publications on Chinese transplant research…
US Representatives Send Letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio Urging State Department Intervention in China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Empire Click HERE to read the press release and HERE for the full letter 07 August 2025: Representatives Chris Smith (R-NJ), John Moolenaar (R-MI) and Neal Dunn, M.D. (R-FL) sent a letter to Secretary…
Image: Medical facility in Urumqi in Xinjiang. Wikimedia Commons Attribution Planned Expansion of Transplant Facilities in Xinjiang Triggers Organ Harvesting Alarm Click HERE to read the information sheet for full details Experts have revealed fears of increased forced organ harvesting from Uyghurs following a recent announcement by China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region…
First Known Survivor of Forced Organ Harvesting Speaks Out to the World Expert opinions on CT scans regarding the missing part of liver and lung Prof Russell Strong (re Liver scans) HERE Prof David McGiffin (re Lung scans) HERE Media Release (below) Mr Cheng’s full Testimony – interviewed by David Matas HERE Press event…
“李强 Li Qiang 20230313 01” by China News Service is licensed under CC BY 3.0. “Parliament House, Canberra, Australia (November 2010)” by OzMark17 is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Amnesty Urges the Australian Government to Raise Forced Organ Harvesting During Premier Li Qiang Visit In light of Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s visit to Australia, Amnesty International has urged the Australian…
AAPS Position Statement on Forced Organ Harvesting Click HERE to read the statement on the AAPS website. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a national organization of physicians and surgeons in all specialties, founded in 1943, issues the following statement: There is overwhelming evidence that by the authority of the Chinese Communist…
Human Organ Supply: Report on Ethical Considerations and Breaches in Organ Harvesting Practices Click HERE for the full report. March 22, 2023: The New York City Bar Association has published a report on organ harvesting considerations, including forced organ harvesting in China and other ethical issues with organ donation. The report acknowledges the…
International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Issues Policy Regarding Transplant Abuse in China Click HERE to read the full policy statement The ISHLT Policy Statement can also be found on their Standards & Guidelines section. The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) issued a policy regarding transplant ethics and transplant…
European Parliament Resolution of 5 May 2022 on the Reports of Continued Organ Harvesting in China (2022/2657(RSP)) Click HERE to view the resolution The European Parliament, – having regard to its previous resolutions on EU-China relations, – having regard to its resolution of 12 December 2013 on organ harvesting in China[1], – having regard to the…
Open Letter – 65 NGOs Urge UN Special Rapporteurs to Take Further Action A joint open letter signed by 65 NGOs has been sent to the 12 UN Special Rapporteurs and human rights experts who issued a joint correspondence to the Chinese Government last year regarding credible evidence about forced organ harvesting targeting specific religious,…
Execution by organ procurement: Breaching the dead donor rule in China Matthew P. Robertson and Dr Jacob Lavee The American Journal of Transplantation READ THE PAPER HERE – https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajt.16969 MEDIA COVERAGE INCLUDES https://www.afr.com/world/asia/surgeons-executed-chinese-prisoners-for-organs-anu-study-20220404-p5aam0 https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/study-chinese-doctors-executed-prisoners-by-organ-removal/ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The dead donor rule is fundamental to transplant ethics. The rule states that organ procurement must not…
STATEMENT: CMA supports proposed legislation to criminalise coercion of organ donation and transplantation Read the statement on the CMA website HERE Ottawa – Mar. 21, 2022 – The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) is deeply disturbed by ongoing reports of organ trafficking targeting minority populations in China. Recent reports from the China Tribunal and…
UPDATE: The full correspondence to the Chinese Government has now been released. Read it here – https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=26382 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,…
ETAC is becoming well known for its efforts to raise awareness of and bring an end to the illegal harvesting and trafficking of human organs. To succeed in this venture, it is critical that ETAC engage effectively with the international transplant community. We are therefore delighted to announce that transplant surgeons Prof David McGiffin and…
On 13 January 2021, the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission (CPHRC) launched its new report on China, titled “The Darkness Deepens: The Crackdown on Human Rights in China 2016-2020” Beginning on page 42 the CPHRC report covers the issue of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China and the China Tribunal Judgment. Read…
Building a Public Health Response to Organ Transplant Abuse in China Date: Oct 24 2020 | Policy Number: 202010 Abstract Organ transplants in China have been conducted on-demand for the past two decades despite the near-complete absence of organ donations for most of this period. While the Chinese government states that it stopped harvesting organs from executed…
FREEDOM UNITED PUBLIC STATEMENT ON FORCED ORGAN HARVESTING IN CHINA June 2020 Freedom United is the world’s largest anti-modern slavery community working to end modern slavery in all its forms. Freedom United condemns organ trafficking and forced organ harvesting, in China, and around the world. Freedom United supports the work carried out by the International…