Ethical Standards and Chinese Organ Transplant Abuse

BY DAVID MATAS Chamber of Deputies, Rome, Italy I wrote a report with David Kilgour in June 2006 which concluded that prisoners of conscience in China, practitioners of the spiritually based set of exercises Falun Gong, were being killed for their organs which were being sold at high prices to transplant patients. We produced a…

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Deerpark Passes Resolution in Support of H.Res. 281

BY GITTEL EVANGELIST I TIMES HERALD-RECORD On Oct. 6, the Town of Deerpark became the latest local municipality to pass a resolution in support of H.Res. 281. The House bill calls on China to “end the practice of organ harvesting from prisoners, and particularly from Falun Gong prisoners of conscience and members of other religious…

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Military Health Minister Says Jiang Zemin Culprit Of Organ Harvesting

BY NTD CHINESE Former Health Minister of the General Logistics Department of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) personally confirmed that former Chinese President Jiang Zemin ordered live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. These organs were used for transplants according to telephone records recently released by World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong…

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Italian Congress Shows the Double Face of Organ Transplantation

BY EPOCH TIMES ROME—The congress of the Italian Society of Organ Transplantation (SITO) concluded in Siena, Italy, end September. Doctors and professional workers shared with the public the reality of a sensitive issue. From one side, Italy is one of the most advanced medical countries in the world, from another side, there is still poor…

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The First Criminals in Live Organ Harvesting Announced

BY NTDTV Since organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners was first revealed in 2006, the relevant evidence and information about the CCP’s (Chinese Communist Party) crimes have continued to be exposed. WOIPFG, the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, announced the first list of medical staff alleged to have participated in…

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Letters: Stop forced organ harvesting in China

Thank you, Tribune, for your work through the years to help us all be more aware of events and concerns in our state, nation and our world. Thank you to all four Utah congressmen, who were among the first of a total of 215 Representatives who have co-sponsored H. Res. 281 “expressing concern over persistent…

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Letters: Resolution on China can save lives

Condemnation of organ harvesting co-sponsored by Petri and Ribble I’d like to sincerely thank Rep. Tom Petri and Rep. Reid Ribble for co-sponsoring House Resolution 281. We are probably all well aware of the human rights violations committed in China by the communist regime. This has weighed heavily on my mind. Sipping tea and reading…

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David Matas Combatting in Utah

 BY DAVID MATAS (Remarks prepared for delivery to the University of Utah, 19 September, 2014) I want today to address two topics, the evidence about the killing of Falun Gong for their organs and what Utah can do about it. Evidence I am a lawyer in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in private practice. My clients are…

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Missouri Representatives Unanimously Support Res. 281

BY MICHELLE DING More than 1,000 Missourians signed a petition last year calling on the U.S. Congress to help stop an unimaginable crime in China: forced organ harvesting from non-consenting prisoners of conscience — especially practitioners of the persecuted Falun Gong meditation. With the strong bipartisan support of 215 congressional co-sponsors, a pending House resolution…

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Chinese organ harvesting targets political, religious prisoners

BY CARLEN ZHANG Journalist Ethan Gutmann recently delved into one of China’s darkest secrets: the Chinese Communist Party’s monstrous live organ harvesting practice. In March 2006, the first word about live organ harvesting escaped China, when a surgeon’s ex-wife fled from China to reveal that Chinese authorities in a concentration camp in Sujiatun, China murdered…

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David Matas: ‘Transplant Tourism from the Middle East’

BY DAVID MATAS Remarks prepared for delivery to the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation, Istanbul, Turkey, 10 September, 2014 There needs to be more of an effort in the Middle East to combat transplant tourism from the Middle East. National professional associations should require compliance with international standards. My focus is, in particular, transplant…

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Body Theft: An Ongoing Exhibition

BY CHRISTINE FORD Dead human bodies are being injected with plastic and sent on a world tour, making German anatomist Gunther von Hagens extremely wealthy. So, what is wrong with that, you ask? Must be educational? The Body World exhibition, as it is called, has been on a world tour for decades, but the snag…

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Unbelievable! Over 2,500 Signatures from a City in China!

BY MINGHUI Between February and June 2014, 2,595 people in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, and surrounding areas signed a petition denouncing these crimes, and demanding that the organ harvesting be stopped. One woman was enraged after hearing about the atrocity, “The CCP is killing people! Who wouldn’t sign the petition to stop it? I am…

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Kidney Stone Removal Becomes Kidney Removal in China

BY EPOCH TIMES A Chinese woman in Shenzhen City recently went to hospital for what she thought was a small surgery: to remove kidney stones. During the surgery, however, doctors told her that her left kidney must be removed for her to survive. After she sought an explanation for what was going on, she was…

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