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CECC Hearing: A Market Built on Victims: Stopping Illegal Organ Trafficking in China and Beyond
May 14, 2026: The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), created by Congress with legislative mandate to monitor human rights and the development of the rule of law in China, held a hearing to showcase three new books that have just been published, which provide fresh perspectives on the issue of organ harvesting in China. The books explore “the relationship between religious persecution and transplant abuse, and how international medical, academic, commercial, and government actors have failed to confront or prevent these atrocities.” The hearing will also explore “what the United States and its allies can do to address this heinous global crime and examine additional steps that can be taken to hold both PRC officials and organ traffickers accountable for their roles in perpetuating it.”
The testimonies can be found HERE on the CEEC page
Testimonies by the witnesses:
- Ethan Gutmann
- Ambassador Sam Brownback
- Jan Jekielek
- Kalbinur Sidik
Click HERE to watch the full video of the hearing via CECC Youtube Channel
From the video description:
The systematic, widespread, and nonconsensual removal of human organs for transplantation—often described as forced organ harvesting or illegal organ trafficking—remains one of the gravest human rights concerns associated with the People’s Republic of China. Reports by researchers, human rights advocates, and medical ethics experts have raised serious concerns that prisoners of conscience, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims, and other political and religious prisoners, have been targeted within a state-enabled transplant system.
Three new books have been published recently that provide fresh perspectives on this issue, drawing renewed attention to evidence of forced organ harvesting in China, the relationship between religious persecution and transplant abuse, and how international medical, academic, commercial, and government actors have failed to confront or prevent these atrocities. This hearing will further explore what the United States and its allies can do to address this heinous global crime and examine additional steps that can be taken to hold both PRC officials and organ traffickers accountable for their roles in perpetuating it.
The hearing is in room 2247 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
Witnesses
Ethan Gutmann, Senior Research Fellow in China Studies, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation; author of The Xinjiang Procedure and The Slaughter
Ambassador Sam Brownback, Senior Fellow, Pepperdine University; former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom; former U.S. Senator and Governor of Kansas; author of China’s War on Faith
Jan Jekielek, Senior Editor, The Epoch Times; Host of “American Thought Leaders”; New York Times best-selling author of Killed to Order
Kalbinur Sidik, Survivor of China’s genocide and eyewitness to forced labor camps and author of forthcoming book Heart Full of Light: Love, Loss, and Survival Inside China’s Gulags.
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