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…
Detailsby Ethan Gutmann What an interesting time for the Ride2Freedom to appear on the horizon. In China, the twilight of the Falun Gong persecution is said to have arrived. Lawsuits against Jiang Zemin are no longer being blocked. Zhou Yongkang, the ogre of organ harvesting himself, has received a life sentence. Bo Xilai, Gu Kailai:…
Detailsby Minghui.org David Kilgour presented results of his investigations at the 2015 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Ottawa, Canada, on June 5. He highlighted the fact that Falun Gong practitioners are the main target of forced organ harvesting in China. Mr. Kilgour said that as the person who launched the persecution of…
DetailsBy Epoch Times “Human Harvest,” a documentary examining the illegal organ harvesting industry in China, received the Peabody Award in New York on Sunday. Reports first emerged in China in 2006 that state-run hospitals were killing prisoners of conscience to sell their organs. “Human Harvest” examines the investigation into these shocking revelations, carried out by Nobel…
DetailsBy Epoch Times The last time someone in China tried to sue Jiang Zemin, the former leader of the Chinese regime, the person was sent to jail and died there of torture. A co-signee to the complaint spent five years in a prison in Tianjin and got all his teeth knocked out. But earlier this month,…
DetailsBY CHINA UNCENSORED Over a decade of murdering prisoners of conscience for their organs, and now the Communist Party of China is trying to blame it all on one guy—Zhou Yongkang. See how an interview with the head of China’s organ transplant system, Huang Jiefu, was used to make an intentional leak. The latest in…
Detailsby: DAFOH German analyst, Arne Schwarz, has explored unethical organ harvesting practices. As co-author of the book, STATE ORGANS: Transplant Abuse in China, Schwarz has been widely recognized and awarded for revealing Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche’s involvement in unethical clinical trials in China. His work is noted throughout the medical literature concerning the implications of…
Detailsby WESLEY J. SMITH China is a brutal tyranny in which all manner of oppressions are imposed by the government–such as its authoritarian one-child policy–recently praised by VP Joe Biden with faint damnation, while being outright praised by others. More, some of the willingly complicit in the tyranny, such as killing political prisoners and selling their organs. One such participant is kidney buyer…
DetailsBy Joshua Philipp, Epoch Times The Chinese Communist Party has been using prisoners of conscience–mainly Falun Gong practitioners, but also Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Christians–as living and unwilling sources for organ transplants. Around the world, as awareness of this atrocity has grown, so too has public condemnation. In Australia, two city council members from Parramatta, a…
DetailsBy Matthew Robertson, Epoch Times Recognition comes as international medical stance toward China reaches fork in the road An unflinching documentary about mass murder for profit in modern China has been granted one of the most prestigious awards in television and broadcast, the Peabody Award. “Human Harvest,” directed by Leon Lee, was produced in 2014…
Detailsby David Matas (Revised remarks prepared for a symposium, Bern, Switzerland, 16 April, 2015) Chinese health officials over the years have made a wide variety of contradictory statements about the sourcing of organs for transplants. The statements can not all be right. But they can all be wrong, and, in my view, are all…
DetailsSYDNEY—Australian politicians should be more outspoken about China’s abusive organ-harvesting trade otherwise they risk being complicit in one of the worst crimes against humanity, say rights activists. Sydney radio presenter Stephen Sim has long been calling for action to stop the practice of organ harvesting from live prisoners in China and says there is not…
DetailsBy Shar Adams, Epoch Times, Larry Ong, Epoch Times and Matthew Robertson, Epoch Times SYDNEY—A harrowing documentary on forced organ harvesting from live prisoners in China has highlighted concerns that the state sanctioned practice continues despite claims by Chinese health officials that it has been stopped. The documentary, Human Harvest: China’s Organ Trafficking, screened on…
DetailsNIAGARA FALLS, Ont.—It was two-for-one to see Premier Exhibitions’ skinned and plasticized corpses in Niagara Falls on April 17, but two security guards at the doors were vetting who could get in. That’s because in the street outside around 250 people gathered to call for Bodies Revealed, Premier’s latest plasticized corpse exhibit, to be shut…
DetailsBy Shelley B. Blank An award winning journalist and author reviews the international press on forced organ harvesting in China. Ethan Gutmann is the author of “The Slaughter” (Prometheus, 2014) and “Losing the New China” (Encounter, 2004). He has written widely on China issues for publications such as the Wall Street Journal Asia, Investor’s Business Daily, Weekly Standard, National…
DetailsDoctors call on the international community to press for transparency on organ sources in China. WASHINGTON, April 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — The international community should not find relief from the crisis in transplant medicine in China’s recent promise to end the harvesting of organs from executed prisoners, said the medical watchdog organization, Doctors Against Forced Organ…
DetailsBY: SHELLEY B. BLANK Ethan Gutmann is the author of “The Slaughter” (Prometheus, 2014) and “Losing the New China” (Encounter, 2004). He has written widely on China issues for publications such as the Wall Street Journal Asia, Investor’s Business Daily, Weekly Standard, National Review, and World Affairs Journal, and he has provided testimony and briefings…
DetailsBy Frank Fang, Epoch Times and Matthew Robertson, Epoch Times It was the sort of story that appears constantly online in China, most of the time impossible to verify or say anything more about than, “Oh wow, now that’s bad.” But this particular Internet post—a 5,000 word exposé about the extraction of prisoner organs,…
DetailsBy 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…
Detailsby 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…
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