by Minghui.org Taiwan has officially banned transplant tourism. Legislators amended Taiwan’s Human Organ Transplant Act on June 12, 2015, forbidding illegal organ sales. The Act further stipulates that patients who get organ transplants overseas must provide legal proof of the source of the organs in order to be eligible for medical care in Taiwan. Organs…
By Matthew Robertson, Epoch Times Loyalist to former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin blamed for state-run organ trade In a shocking shift in a public narrative, China’s top organ transplantation official blamed the former chief security boss and longtime Jiang Zemin loyalist, Zhou Yongkang, for the state’s use of prisoners as a live organ bank. The…
by Hon. David Kilgour, J.D International Conference on Religious Freedom In Honour of Hon. Shahbaz Bhatti A 2011 Pew Forum study estimated that Christians then numbered about 2.1 billion worldwide. According to the International Society for Human Rights, a secular group with members in 38 countries, 80 per cent of all acts of religious…
By Matthew Robertson, Epoch Times The Chinese doctor who made world headlines in 2003 by exposing the coverup of the deadly disease Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, has now come forth to expose another of China’s dark secrets: the involvement of Chinese military hospitals in harvesting organs from prisoners—sometimes while the victims are still…
By Vincenzo Cassano, Epoch Times The Italian Senate has approved a bill that would introduce harsh penalties against individuals who knowingly traffic in human organs. In their discussion of the proposal before the vote, senators focused their outrage on China’s organ transplantation system, which they said has lead to the organized murder of tens of…
BY THE EPOCH TIMES PRAGUE—At a week-long international festival against totalitarianism that concluded in the Czech capital on Feb. 27, attendees commemorated the struggles of victims living under past and present regimes. This year, two prominent guests, former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific David Kilgour and investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann, were invited to the…
OTTAWA—Liberal MP and former Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler rose in the House of Commons on Feb. 19 to give voice to demands that the Chinese regime end its practice of killing prisoners of conscience and harvesting their organs. Cotler, the Liberal Party’s critic for rights and freedoms and international justice, tabled six petitions on…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
LONDON—During a pause in the current world tour by authors of books on organ harvesting, the Chinese regime announced it will end the practice of harvesting organs from prisoners by Jan. 1, 2015. As well as being in the middle of the authors’ tour of the U.S., Canada, and Europe, the announcement, made on Dec.…
BY STUART DERDEYN, THE PROVINCE Vancouver-based filmmaker Leon Lee of Flying Cloud Productions has won first prize in the Viewster Online Film Festival (VOFF4) for his film Davids & Goliath, a documentary exposé of illegal human-organ harvesting in China. The prize is worth $50,000 and the film was selected by a panel of three industry…