A new report by CSW on the situation of oppressed religious communities in China is released today amid concerns that some of these groups are especially vulnerable to the spread of the coronavirus and its wider impact on freedoms in China. The report, entitled ‘Repressed, Removed, Re-Educated: The stranglehold on religious life in China,’ contends…
On March 10,2020 University of Toronto students hosted a well-attended event on the mass incarceration of targeted populations in China–notably Uyghurs and Falun Gong practitioners. The program also featured how these persecuted minorities are being blood and tissue typed and their organs harvested without consent. A shortened version of the award winning movie “Hard to Believe”…
This policy forum was dedicated to the release of the latest VOC report on extrajudicial killing for the harvesting of organs by the Chinese Communist Party. The China Tribunal Judgment was also featured at the event. VOC Report The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) has conducted a detailed examination of the allegations of extrajudicial…
The China Tribunal Judgment VIEW/DOWNLOAD THE REPORT HERE https://chinatribunal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ChinaTribunal_JUDGMENT_1stMarch_2020.pdf The China Tribunal has today released its Judgment, declaring that China’s campaign of forced organ harvesting against innocent victims is a “crime against humanity” constituting one of the world’s “worst atrocities committed” of the century in modern times. The China Tribunal’s Judgment discloses the details…
UC Leuven-Limburg in Leuven, Belgium, hosted a screening of the award-winning documentary, Hard To Believe. This event was part of their ‘International week 2019’. The audience consisted of PBA Nursing students, lecturers and their international colleagues. Hard To Believe, produced by Swoop Films, is a documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting…
English version of the report was published on 9 December 2019 by The Institute to Research The Crimes of Communism (IRCC) PDF report available here. At least 20 western companies – and possibly up to 28 – supply China, in some cases for over 20 years, with the materials, drugs and devices supporting the development…
Groups persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party held a rally at Sydney Town Hall Feb 1, including members and supporters of Falun Gong, Uyghurs, and the Church of Almighty God. Professor Paul Macneill from ETAC’s Australian committee spoke about the forced removal of organs from prisoners in China. Read his full speech below. My…
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) – the peak body for medical specialists in Australia and New Zealand – issued a statement condemning trafficking in organs, including organ removal without valid consent or authorisation, or any collaboration with transplant doctors involved in trafficking organs from prisoners and ethnic or religious minorities. Read the full…
Prestigious science journal Nature listed transplant ethicist Wendy Rogers as one of “10 people who mattered in science in 2019”. Wendy is professor of Clinical Ethics at Macquarie University, Australia, and ETAC’s Advisory Committee Chair. Her research on ethical failures in organ transplants studies from China was ground breaking and resulted in two journals retracting…
Joint Position Statement – Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) and International Coalition To End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC) Section 32 Trading in Tissue in the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (NSW) Background This is a joint position statement representing the collective views of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) and the International Coalition to…
GUEST SPEAKERS & TOPICS: THE CHINA TRIBUNAL – SUSIE HUGHES A UNITED NATIONS ISSUE – ELIZABETH EVATT AC A MODERN SLAVERY ISSUE – CAROLYN KITTO A LEGAL ISSUE, COMPLICITY – DR DAVID MATAS A BUSINESS & HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE – DR. MARTIJN BOERSMA AN ETHICAL ISSUE – PROF WENDY ROGERS A MEDICAL ISSUE –…
Representatives from ETAC spoke at the World Uyghur Congress conference at the European Parliament 7-10 Dec 2019 on the international effort to combat organ harvesting. Topics included the work of ETAC, a framework and roadmap for Uyghurs to take action on organ harvesting, and how to engage within legal frameworks and international forums. The following…
Speech by Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, Chair of the China Tribunal, at the UN Human Rights Council Side Event. September, 2019.
Organ Transplant Abuse in China: International Standards and Remedies (Paper presented to the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law and New Zealand Bioethics Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, November 23, 2019) by David Matas Introduction The Communist Party of China has been killing prisoners of conscience since the early 2000s in the tens of thousands…
Complicity (Remarks prepared for a panel on organ transplants and crimes against humanity in China, November 18, 2019, Sydney, Australia) by David Matas I have been asked to address three questions on complicity: What is complicity? What are some scenarios where persons in Australia could be found complicit in organ transplant abuse in China? What…
Organ Sourcing in China: The Official Version, Part II (Remarks prepared for delivery to a seminar in the UK Parliament September 11, 2019) I gave a talk to a symposium in Bern, Switzerland in April 2015 where I went through chronologically with commentary the various official versions of organ sourcing in China. More than four…
Press Release Issued by the British Medical Association – June 18, 2019 – READ RELEASE Responding to the publication of the final judgment of the Independent Tribunal into Forced Organ Harvesting from Prisoners of Conscience in China (the China Tribunal),1 Dr John Chisholm, BMA medical ethics committee chair, said: “We are gravely concerned by the judgment delivered…
Combating Organ Transplant Abuse in China: a Nordic Action Plan by David Matas In remarks I delivered to public seminars in Copenhagen, Denmark on September 17, 2019, and Helsinki, Finland, on September 18, 2019 and to a Parliamentary briefing in Stockholm, Sweden, on September 19, 2019, I presented for each country an action plan to…
The regime has continued to direct a vast network organ-harvesting from prisoners of conscience — primarily Falun Gong –– since 2001, but also from Tibetans, Christians and Muslim Uyghurs. As China’s Communist Party marks 70 years in power as of Oct. 1, a recent Nanos opinion survey indicated that nine in 10 Canadians hold a…
ETAC’s Professor Wendy Rogers has been named Australia’s Research Field Leader for bioethics by The Australian. For more details see the Special Report.