Organ Transplant Abuse in China: International Standards and Remedies (Paper presented to the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law and New Zealand Bioethics Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, November 23, 2019) by David Matas Introduction The Communist Party of China has been killing prisoners of conscience since the early 2000s in the tens of thousands…
DetailsA Medical Issue (Remarks prepared for a panel on organ transplants and crimes against humanity in China, November 18, 2019, Sydney, Australia) Maria A. Fiatarone Singh, MD, FRACP Approximately 2500 years ago, the words from Epidemics, part of the Hippocratic Corpus were written: “The physician must … have two special objects in view with regard to disease,…
DetailsComplicity (Remarks prepared for a panel on organ transplants and crimes against humanity in China, November 18, 2019, Sydney, Australia) by David Matas I have been asked to address three questions on complicity: What is complicity? What are some scenarios where persons in Australia could be found complicit in organ transplant abuse in China? What…
DetailsForensic Analysis of Organ Donation Data Casts Disturbing Light on China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Crimes Today, the publication of the first ever scientific analysis of China’s official organ donation data has found that China is guilty of the “systematic falsification and manipulation of official organ transplant datasets.” The findings of the analysis are the latest…
DetailsOrgan Sourcing in China: The Official Version, Part II (Remarks prepared for delivery to a seminar in the UK Parliament September 11, 2019) I gave a talk to a symposium in Bern, Switzerland in April 2015 where I went through chronologically with commentary the various official versions of organ sourcing in China. More than four…
DetailsZumuret Dawut testified that she was given a forced x-ray of internal organs, and was forced to have blood tests whilst in detention. Two videos available here: Dropbox Link Radio Free Asia Interview with Dawut: Interview: ‘As Soon as I Was Taken Inside, I Knew it Was a Prison’
DetailsThe UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery has released a position statement on the state sanctioned organ trafficking of prisoners in China. Full Statement below: The UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery was concerned to read The China Tribunal’s report, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice…
DetailsSide Event at the UN Human Rights Council – 42nd Session – September, 2019 Hosted by Ingenieurs du Monde. TOPIC – China Tribunal Speakers: CHINA TRIBUNAL – Sir Geoffrey Nice QC (China Tribunal Chair) and Hamid Sabi (Counsel to the Tribunal) ETAC – Susie Hughes, Executive Director, International Coalition To End Transplant Abuse In China…
DetailsDeclarations, the human rights podcast based out of the University of Cambridge has featured David Matas on a recent episode entitled ‘Organ Harvesting and Trafficking of Chinese Minorities’. Declarations Podcast
DetailsCanadian legislation on organ trafficking and mandatory reporting (Remarks prepared to delivery to the Canadian Transplant Summit Kidney Working Group, Banff, Alberta, October 16, 2019) by David Matas I am an international human rights lawyer based in Winnipeg. I approach the issue of organ transplant abuse with a particular focus. In 2006, former Canadian cabinet…
Details“Questions first arose over China’s transplant system when the numbers of transplants rose dramatically after 2000. Transplant capacity rapidly increased; new infrastructure was built and staff were trained. Hospital websites offered livers, hearts and kidneys available in a matter of days or weeks, for a price. Foreigners were encouraged to come to China to…
DetailsCombating Organ Transplant Abuse in China: a Nordic Action Plan by David Matas In remarks I delivered to public seminars in Copenhagen, Denmark on September 17, 2019, and Helsinki, Finland, on September 18, 2019 and to a Parliamentary briefing in Stockholm, Sweden, on September 19, 2019, I presented for each country an action plan to…
DetailsThe regime has continued to direct a vast network organ-harvesting from prisoners of conscience — primarily Falun Gong –– since 2001, but also from Tibetans, Christians and Muslim Uyghurs. As China’s Communist Party marks 70 years in power as of Oct. 1, a recent Nanos opinion survey indicated that nine in 10 Canadians hold a…
DetailsMandatory reporting of transplant tourism (Remarks prepared for delivery to the European Society for Organ Transplantation Congress September 16, 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark) by David Matas Should the law require reporting by health professionals to health administrators of transplant tourism? What form of reporting is viable? This is a particularly relevant question for Europe right now.…
DetailsWestminster Statement, September 11, 2019 “A personal note to the British Foreign Office” Ethan Gutmann The London China Tribunal is wrapping up soon, but the UK foreign policy apparatus will remain. So tonight, I want to speak directly and candidly to the British Foreign Office. As part of this experiment in plain speaking, I want…
DetailsThe journals PLOS ONE and Transplantation have retracted fifteen journal papers by Chinese authors over suspicion they used harvested organs from executed prisoners. Both journals have cited a paper published by ETAC’s International Advisory Committee chair Wendy Rogers. Rogers and colleagues at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia found more than 400 articles that likely used…
DetailsUNIVERSAL VALUES AND ENGAGEMENT WITH BEIJING West Lawn, Capitol Hill, Washington Notes for Hon. David Kilgour, J.D. For International Coalition to end Transplant Abuse in China July 18, 2019 ___________________________________________________ Twenty years ago, the party-state in Beijing launched a brutal campaign to eradicate Falun Gong. People everywhere should condemn the ongoing torture, killing, organ pillaging,…
DetailsThe 20th anniversary of the repression of Falun Gong (Remarks prepared for a rally in Hong Kong July 20, 2019) by David Matas We are marking today the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Communist Party campaign of repression of Falun Gong. The fact of the repression and its continuation for so long are…
DetailsThe Development of Human Rights Norms as a Reaction to Genocide (Paper presented to the International Association of Genocide Scholars Conference, Phnom Penh, Cambodia July 18, 2019) by David Matas Extremes Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities began his novel, written in 1859 and set in Paris and London at the time of…
DetailsOstracism or engagement in combating unethical medical research (Paper for presentation to the Oxford Global Health and Bioethics International Conference 2019, Keble College, Oxford, 2 July,2019) by David Matas Introduction Where any component of medical research in a country is unethical, should the global research network working in that component ostracize or engage with researchers…
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