ETHAN GUTMANN SPEAKS AT BRIEFING IN PARLIAMENT HOUSE, AUSTRALIA

BY ETHAN GUTMANN A briefing via Skype at Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra. While I appreciate your invitation, listening to anyone on Skype can be tedious, so I’ll be brief. Three years ago, I gave testimony in Canberra on how the forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience evolved from a handful of Uyghur political…

ETHAN GUTMANN RECEIVES NOMINATION FOR THE 2017 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

BY END ORGAN PILLAGING/PRESS RELEASE For investigative journalism and advocacy of a better China, Ethan Gutmann has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2004, Gutmann’s book Losing the New China exposed American corporate collusion in the construction of China’s controlled Internet, and contributed to Congress cross-examination of the legal representatives of Yahoo, Microsoft,…

ENDING ORGAN TOURISM TO CHINA —BY DAVID KILGOUR

BY HON. DAVID KILGOUR, J.D. 17-23 August, 2016 Hong Kong Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre hosting Congress In 2006, the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China asked David Matas and me to investigate as volunteers seemingly bizarre but persistent claims of organ pillaging/trafficking from Falun Gong practitioners. We released two…

DESPITE INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION, TRANSPLANT CONGRESS HONORS A MURDERER

BY DAFOH Despite international condemnation of forced organ harvesting, transplant congress in Hong Kong honors China’s transplant mastermind. Doctors call upon The Transplantation Society to first demand full disclosure and transparency on organ procurement violations before welcoming China’s transplant authorities. WASHINGTON, July 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH), a leading medical…

GLOBAL MEDIA OUTLETS FEATURE NEW CHINA TRANSPLANT STATISTICS

An unprecedented new report by a team of relentless investigators was published on June 22, 2016. The basis of the report is a meticulous examination of the transplant programs of hundreds of hospitals in China, drawing on media reports, official propaganda, medical journals, hospital websites and a vast amount of deleted websites found in archive. It…

DAVID KILGOUR SPEAKS AT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

NOTES FOR REMARKS ON NEW UPDATE ON ‘BLOODY HARVEST’ AND ‘THE SLAUGHTER’ Hon. David Kilgour, J.D. European Parliament, Brussels 29 June, 2016 For at least 15 years across China, there has been regime-sanctioned pillaging and trafficking in the vital organs of prisoners of conscience—overwhelmingly from practitioners of Falun Gong, but also Tibetans, Uyghurs and house…

ORGAN HARVESTING: AN EXAMINATION OF A BRUTAL PRACTICE

BY ETHAN GUTMANN, AUTHOR OF THE SLAUGHTER Committee on Foreign Affairs Hearing: Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, and the Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats 2:00 pm, June 23, 2016 in Room 2200, Rayburn House Office Building: “Organ Harvesting: An Examination of a Brutal Practice” ► WATCH WEBCAST…

AN UPDATE TO RESEARCH ON ORGAN HARVESTING IN CHINA

At 2 p.m. June 22 at the National Press Club, Washington, DC Former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific David Kilgour, investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann and Canadian human rights attorney David Matas will release a detailed and comprehensive report on China’s organ transplantation industry, dealing specifically with the use of prisoners of conscience as a profitable…

US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PASSES LEGISLATION CONDEMNING ORGAN HARVESTING

BY THE EPOCH TIMES A decade after evidence emerged of one of the gravest and most extraordinary human rights violations today, the United States House of Representatives has added its voice to the chorus of censure. H.Res 343, an item of legislation that expresses concern by the House of Representatives on “persistent and credible reports…

Governance and Corruption

BY DAVID KILGOUR Second Annual Anti-Corruption Symposium of Canadians for Accountability in partnership. University of Ottawa 7 May 2016 The respected international NGO Transparency International (TI), which confronts corruption worldwide, is correct that none anywhere should be above the law or abuse voter-entrusted power for private gain. Corruption poses a threat to democracies and the…

FALUN DAFA TARGETED FOR ORGAN HARVESTING

BY DAVID KILGOUR Falun Dafa—more popularly now known as Falun Gong in about 130 countries worldwide—is an ancient Chinese spiritual practice. It combines the art of meditation with qigong exercises, while focusing on principles of “Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance”. It was introduced in northeast China in 1992 by Master Li Hongzhi, a public servant, who…

Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee Supports US Condemnation of Organ Harvesting in China

BY EPOCH TIMES Last year, approximately 20,000 people from U.S. Congressional District 39 in California signed a petition to support a house resolution condemning forced organ harvesting in China. This district is represented by Ed Royce, who also chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Currently 142 members of Congress on both sides of the aisle…