By Jack Phillips, Epoch Times A top Iraqi diplomat said Tuesday that the Islamic State is harvesting organs from its victims to help finance the terrorist organization’s operations. And while it sounds horrific, it’s unlikely ISIS is operating on the same scale as the Chinese Communist Party. It’s unclear how the Islamic State is doing…
By David Kilgour | David vs. David Diplomats, politicians and business leaders sometimes overlook that China is its peoples, cultures and history far more than its unelected government. The criticisms many of us at home and abroad make are of the party-state governance, not the long-suffering citizens. Mao remains the overarching governance icon. Jung Chang and…
BY THE EPOCH TIMES The White House responded recently to a petition about a grave topic—harvesting of organs of prisoners of conscience in China. But the response that came two years after the petition was lodged, failed entirely to address the key issue of concern, and, say doctors and researchers who supported the petition, took…
BY THE EPOCH TIMES Late on a Friday afternoon the White House responded to a petition submitted to their “We the People” site about 3 years ago that called for investigating and publicly condemning organ harvesting from Falun Gong believers in China. The White House should be praised for publicly condemning the organ harvesting from…
BY DAVID MATAS (Remarks prepared for delivery at a press conference at the Foundation for Free Speech, Warsaw, Poland 26 January, 2015) I am pleased to be back in Warsaw. I came here first in May 1989 as co-chair of the Canadian Helsinki Watch Group for the annual general meeting of the International Helsinki…
Military hospitals have been the main location for forced organ harvesting BY EPOCH TIMES The Chinese regime is looking for ways to rein in its military officers, who have for decades been tapping extracurricular sources for extra income. Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping recently announced that military officials will need to live off their…
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BY VISION TIMES Many people have heard of the bodies exhibits that tour the world, showing viewers what the human body looks like on the inside. But most are unaware of the connection with the Chinese Communist Party. Internet police in China just removed the photos below of plastinated bodies after a blogger posted them…
BY EPOCH TIMES HONG KONG—On the weekend of Jan. 17, Falun Gong practitioners gathered in Hong Kong to share with one another their experiences with the spiritual discipline and to hold a parade to educate the public about how individuals who share their beliefs are persecuted in mainland China. Falun Gong has been persecuted by…
BY EPOCH TIMES “What everyone wants to know about your announcement is the extent of its limitation of prisoner organs,” asked the host of China Central Television, China’s flagship propaganda television station, of Huang Jiefu, the country’s top transplantation official, in an attitude of faux-earnestness. In December Huang had made a remarkable announcement: that organs…
BY EPOCH TIMES A secretly recorded phone call by a group that investigates human rights abuses in China may shed light on a crucial question: did a former leader of the Chinese Communist Party directly order the genocide, by cruel and unusual means, of a religious group? In the year 2000, a remarkable thing began…
by Ben Grinberg, Vision Times Thee Chinese government makes no secret of its use of organs from non-willing inmates on death row, but did you know it’s secretly been getting organs from living victims too, and the majority of them are prisoners of conscience? The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) just…
BY THE EPOCH TIMES Investigators into allegations of involuntary organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners estimate that 62,000 were murdered in hospitals across China for their lucrative body parts during the period 2000-2008. The involuntary harvesting of organs continues in China, and investigators believe practitioners remain the main source of organs used for transplant…
http://vimeo.com/114999261 In an indepth video interview, Ethan Gutmann comments on the recent Taiwanese media frenzy over his latest book, “The Slaughter,” and clarifies any final ambiguities over his interview with Taipei’s new mayor, Dr. Ko Wen-je. Read the FULL TEXT Photos of Ethan Gutmann’s and Dr. Ko Wen-je’s correspondence: DOWNLOAD Order your copy of The…
Ethan Gutmann is the author of two books about China, and a variety of long articles of reportage on the topic of organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in the PRC. His most recent book, The Slaughter, was published earlier this year—it focuses on the mass harvesting of organs of practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual…
Lihua Lan is among the 11 individuals are still in illegal detention by Serbian police. Lihua Lan, a Finnish citizen and arrested at her hotel (Apartments Residence) by the Serbian police. Olli Törmä, Finnish Chairman for Supporting Human Rights in China (SHRIC) writes: We arrived to Belgrade on the scheduled flight. At the customs inspection,…
To Ambassador Michael Davenport, Head of the European Union Delegation to the Republic of Serbia Beograd, 16.12.2014 Dear Mr. Davenport, I’d like to inform you about unpleasant things that has happened recently and ask for your help in this matter. Group of activists for human rights in China informed the police of their intention to…
BY EPOCH TIMES / Photo: Entrance of the hostel where were protesters detained by Serbian police. (The Big Hostel) Traveling to the CEE-China Summit in Belgrade to rase awareness of the ongoing organ harvesting issue in China; nine human rights protesters were illegally detained in Belgrade, Serbia, yesterday evening just before the summit between Central…
Interviews with David Kilgour and Jay Lavee. ► David Kilgour introduces the new film ‘Davids and Goliath’, the story of how these two Nobel Peace Prize nominees pieced together the evidence and continue to fight against this industrial-scale crime of organ pillaging in China. ► Israel passed a law banning the sale and brokerage of…
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, DAFOH, the international human rights group made up of physicians and advocates for ethical organ procurement, has penned an open letter to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, calling on him to use his influence to oppose and end the…