Falun Dafa Information Center: Public Statement on Forced Organ Harvesting in China
The Falun Dafa Information Center (FDIC) stands with the international community in calling for the end to forced organ harvesting by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Silence in the face of such atrocities is complicity.
As we speak, the machinery of the CCP’s state-subsidized forced organ harvesting industry is operating at full capacity. Evidence indicates that Chinese hospitals have been colluding with the country’s police in a nefarious scheme known as “organ harvesting.” They hold prisoners of conscience against their will, often illegally, examine them for organ compatibility, and then systematically remove their healthy organs to supply transplants for a booming organ transplantation industry. Their bodies are cremated, according to eyewitnesses.
The vast majority of prisoners of conscience targeted in this manner are believed to be Falun Gong practitioners — possibly running into tens of thousands annually, according to estimates by Ethan Gutmann, an investigative journalist, David Matas, an international human rights lawyer, and David Kilgour, a former Canadian member of parliament, who published their findings in 2016. Allegations of mass murder of Falun Gong practitioners for organs have been made since 2006. With every year that has passed since — and in particular over the last few years — more evidence has emerged supporting the allegations. The methodologies used for analyzing the evidence have become more robust, and concerns have become increasingly mainstream. Meanwhile, the position of the Chinese regime and its defenders, who deny the claims, has become increasingly untenable.
“The meteoric rise in transplant operations in China directly correlates to the meteoric rise in Falun Gong practitioner detainees,” said FDIC executive director Levi Browde in 2019. “In Falun Gong, the Chinese regime suddenly had a near-endless supply of organs to draw from.”
Survivors of Chinese incarceration have reported blood testing and medical exams consistent with reverse, unethical donor matching, according to dozens of interviews documented by the FDIC in a 2023 written testimony for the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. In 2025, the first-known survivor, Falun Gong practitioner Cheng Peiming, publicly testified that he survived the removal of part of his liver and lung while detained in China.
We call for the following urgent action:
- Increase Legislative Action: We encourage more action from governments and lawmakers. Choose justice, not complicity. Join the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Parliament, Taiwan, and others in fighting for human rights and religious freedom.
- Share Information: Host or attend community events to educate others about forced organ harvesting. Share this post. Start conversations with your friends, families, and coworkers—awareness saves lives.
- Sign Petitions: Add your voice to the growing global movement demanding an end to this atrocity. We recommend ETAC’s petition for G7+7, which is available here.
History will remember who stood against forced organ harvesting—and who looked away. The Falun Dafa Information Center urges readers: now is the moment to choose courage over silence.
