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Open Letter to Haifa Economic Corporation, Haifa Mayor – Urgent Concerns re Transplant Surgeon Dong Jiahong and the China-Israel Hi-tech Investment Summit

In the News, Letters, News ReportsBy ETAC November 7, 2018

NOTE: ETAC received written confirmation from Haifa Economic Corporation that Dong Jiahong would not attend the November 18-20 event. Einat Kalish-RotemMayor of HaifaHassan Shukri 14Haifa, ISRAEL 3310511 Or ShahafCEO of Haifa Economic CorporationPark MATAMHaifa, ISRAEL 3190500 Ziv TamirMessilaPark MATAMHaifa, ISRAEL 3190500 November 7, 2018 Re: Withdraw Invitation to Prof. Dong Jiahong for the “China-Israel Hi-tech…

3rd UK Roundtable Briefing on Forced Organ Harvesting – Westminster

In the News, News Reports, Speeches & PresentationsBy ETAC November 2, 2018

On Tuesday 16th October, The UK Parliament held an event on organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China. Hosted by Jim Shannon MP, and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion of Belief. This was the third event inside the last 12 months, listening to evidence from from Lord…

Canadian Senate Passes Bill to Combat Organ Harvesting and Organ Trafficking

In the News, News Reports, Press ReleaseBy ETAC October 25, 2018

Today, MP Garnett Genuis held a press conference with Senator Salma Ataullahjan on Bill S-240, which has just been passed by the Senate with unanimous, multi-partisan consent. Bill S-240 creates new offences with regard to organ harvesting and organ trafficking abroad. This Bill will grant new protections to ethnic and religious minorities – such as those who…

China’s Organ Transplants – BBC World Service

In the News, News ReportsBy ETAC October 19, 2018

The BBC’s World Service has released a two-part broadcast on ‘China’s Organ Transplants’. The program is well researched and recommended listening. Part 1 – Who To Believe? Part 2 – Tourism and Transparency

“Disappeared” Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng Receives Shahbaz Bhatti Freedom Award

In the News, News Reports, UncategorizedBy ETAC September 4, 2018

A Chinese human rights lawyer persecuted by authorities for his support of oppressed communities, including Christians and Falun Gong practitioners, was awarded the Shahbaz Bhatti Freedom Award on 29th August. The whereabouts of the lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, have not been publicly known since August, 2017, so the award was presented to his wife, Geng He,…

ISHR Issue Public Statement Condemning Organ Harvesting In China

In the News, News ReportsBy ETAC August 20, 2018

Public Statement by the International Society for Human Rights on Forced Organ Harvesting Practice in the People’s Republic of China The International Society for Human Rights condemns the systematic forced organ harvesting carried out by a secret network of state-run hospitals, prisons and re-education camps, police and the military in the People’s Republic of China.…

Statement from Enver Tohti on ‘Real Bodies The Exhibition’

In the News, Letters, News ReportsBy ETAC August 16, 2018

It is the greatest feeling in the world for a surgeon that has carried out his duty, performed a surgery, saved a life. My own feeling of greatness turned into a nightmare when I met Ethan Gutmann in a Committee room of Westminster ten years ago. That was when I confessed that, many years ago,…

UK – Open Letter – “Real Bodies” – Lords, MPs, Academics, Doctors and Human Rights Advocates Urge for DNA Testing of Bodies

In the News, News ReportsBy ETAC August 8, 2018

Media Coverage: The Guardian, The Times, The Epoch Times, South China Morning Post, The Sun, The Catholic Universe BBC Radio (1:07), BBC TV, BMJ, The Epoch Times (Aug 22) OPEN LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER, OPPOSITION LEADER, THE FOREIGN SECRETARY AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HEALTH. Download the Open Letter here or read…

Transplant Volumes and Anti-Rejection Drugs by David Matas, TTS Madrid, 2018

By David Matas, In the News, News ReportsBy ETAC July 28, 2018

Transplant volumes and anti-rejection drugs by David Matas (Remarks prepared for delivery at a Campfire Session, The Transplantation Society Congress, 2018, Madrid, Spain) David Kilgour, Ethan Gutmann and I released in June 2016 an update to our previous work on transplant abuse in China by focusing on transplant volumes. We concluded that the transplant…

Prague Senat Briefing on Forced Organ Harvesting – Uyghurs & Falun Gong

By Ethan Gutmann, In the News, News Reports, Speeches & PresentationsBy ETAC July 8, 2018

Ethan Gutmann July 2018 Three years ago, I spoke to the Senat about Chinese organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience. What has occurred since then – both in terms of our investigation and the Chinese Communist Party’s response to it – is a remarkable story. Yet I am here today to tell you…

Cold Genocide: Falun Gong in China – Journal Article

Articles, In the News, News ReportsBy ETAC June 20, 2018

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…

David Matas Receives Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree

By David Matas, In the News, News Reports, SpeechBy ETAC June 13, 2018

The University of Alberta awarded David Matas an honorary doctor of laws degree on June 12, 2018. “An honorary degree is our learning community’s highest honour,” said University of Alberta Chancellor Douglas Stollery. Joining David in receiving an honorary degree from the University of Alberta this June are 13 exceptional individuals including David Suzuki, Canada’s…

United States Commission on International Religious Freedom – 2018 REPORT

In the News, News ReportsBy ETAC May 31, 2018

China features in the report as a Tier 1 Country ‘- a Country of Particular Concern’. (View the full report here) RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT INCLUDE: Call on the Chinese government to cease labeling Falun Gong as a cult and lift the ban on its practice; Press for at the highest levels and work…

Missouri Senate unanimously passes resolution calling for an immediate end to the practice of organ harvesting in China

In the News, Laws, News ReportsBy ETAC May 25, 2018

Missouri House of Representatives Resolution SCR 28 condemns the atrocity of forced organ extractions from Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners of conscience in China. The resolution also “Call(s) upon the President of the United States to undertake a full and transparent investigation by the United States Department of State into organ transplant practices in…

Public Statement by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) on forced organ harvesting in China

In the News, Letters, News Reports, UncategorizedBy ETAC April 22, 2018

The following is the Uyghur Human Rights Project‘s public statement supporting a push to cease forced organ harvesting in China — 2018 To Whom It May Concern: This letter is to support the work of the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC). The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) believes the efforts of ETAC…

Open Letter signed by lawyers, academics and ethicists urges the Australian Government to close “Real Bodies: The Exhibition” – view letter and media coverage

In the News, Letters, News Reports, Press ReleaseBy ETAC April 19, 2018

An OPEN LETTER signed by lawyers, academics, ethicists and human rights advocates urges the Australian Government to close the ‘Real Bodies’ exhibition immediately. The authors also call for a boycott by all schools, universities and other organized groups. Media Coverage: The Guardian, SMH, News, ABC Radio, Network 10 The Project, VIce, The Conversation OPEN…

Experts speak at UK roundtable on forced organ harvesting – Westminster

By David Kilgour, By Ethan Gutmann, In the News, News Reports, Speech, Speeches & PresentationsBy ETAC April 18, 2018

A second roundtable meeting was held at Westminster on Tuesday the 17th April 2018 to raise awareness about claims of forced organ harvesting in China – co-hosted by Jim Shannon MP and Fiona Bruce MP. This meeting presented the available evidence of forced organ harvesting in China and experts discussed the steps the UK Government…

Interaction with Chinese Transplant Professionals – Harvard Medical School Centre for Bioethics Conference

By David Matas, In the News, News Reports, Speech, Speeches & Presentations, UncategorizedBy ETAC April 13, 2018

Interaction with Chinese transplant professionals (Remarks prepared for a poster presentation at the Harvard Medical School Centre for Bioethics Conference April 13, 2018) by David Matas In China, there is a lot of money to be made from the sale of organs, a huge organ donor source of dehumanized prisoners, and nothing much to prevent…

OPEN LETTER to the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS)

In the News, Letters, News Reports, Press ReleaseBy ETAC March 19, 2018

Committee members of the International Coalition To End Transplant Abuse In China (ETAC) wrote to the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) to express concern that the Vatican conference “Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking, and Access to Justice for the Poor and Vulnerable” held from March 12-13 included among its attendees and speakers Dr. Wang Haibo, the…

Seminar – China’s Reform Narrative on Transplant Abuse: Does it Stand Up to Scrutiny?

Events, In the News, News Reports, Speeches & Presentations, VideosBy ETAC March 5, 2018

An online seminar examining the reform narrative, the evidence, and the implications for human rights in China – 20 February, 2018 Guest speakers notes and video timecodes: “The CCP’s Reform Narrative” (0:13) – Louisa Greve, International Affairs/Asia Specialist “The Evidence” – Matthew Robertson, Research Fellow, Human Rights Law Foundation “The Ethics” (24:52) – Wendy Rogers, Professor…