BY EPOCH TIMES It is difficult to secure a human heart for transplantation. The donor is usually brain dead and on life support, and the donor and recipient must share matching blood and tissue types to prevent rejection. So Jacob Lavee, a heart transplant surgeon at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, found it hard…
BY THE DAILY BEAST A new PBS documentary examines claims that China collects organs from live and dead prisoners to traffic on its massive black market. You may have seen them handing out flyers in small groups on city streets. Their hands moving in the slow-motion style of Tai Chi, silently protesting at their 13-year,…
BY DIGITAL JOURNAL A serious documentary investigation into the recent mass murder of prisoners of conscience through organ transplantation in China will be released in the U.S. late 2015⸺less than one year before the World Transplant Congress is to be held in Hong Kong, China next August. “The timing is significant,” says Ethan Gutmann, author…
By 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…
By 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…