By Epoch Times An official European representative body has promulgated a new convention outlawing the trafficking in human organs, calling on all countries to become signatories to it and criminalize the practice and punish offenders. The convention, called the “Council of Europe Convention against Trafficking in Human Organs” was adopted by the Council of Europe’s Committee…
By Minghui At the third Minnesota Food Truck Fair, a free annual event in uptown Minneapolis that brings people together from all around the State of Minnesota, visitors were offered an opportunity to support a worthy cause while enjoying gourmet food. At the June 29 event, Falun gong practitioners shared the facts of the persecution that…
By Minghui Display boards describing the crimes of state-sanctioned organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners in China were seen by locals and foreigners on the morning of July 5, 2014, as they walked along the bustling Bahnhof Strasse shopping avenue in Zurich, Switzerland. Many passersby signed their names to the signature petition, which was…
By Epoch Times The world is acting quickly to counter the international traffic organs and Italy is in the game. Only three days ago, July 9th, the Council of Europe adopted the first convention to combat human organs traffic, encouraging a “close international cooperation between Member States [of the Council] and non-member states.” Yesterday at the Italian…
By Epoch Times COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Yang Guang and his old friend, a logistics officer at a major hospital in northeastern China, had everything planned: the officer would slowly, carefully, over many months, collect the files and documents moving across his desk that showed a pattern of illicit organ harvesting at the hospital. Then, he would leave China…
By Epoch Times News Analysis In what mainland Chinese media described as an “earthquake” in the nation’s military, retired Gen. Xu Caihou was purged on July 1 from the Chinese Communist Party and charged with corruption. Xu’s fall from the heights of the CCP followed a career based on a devil’s bargain: Xu managed to convert…
By Minghui.org When Falun Gong practitioners held a signature drive in front of the Sydney Town Hall on June 28, 2014, Australians responded. Upon learning about the persecution of this peaceful cultivation practice, especially the forced organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners in China, they showed their support with their signatures, calling on the…
By minghui.org The Australian Medical Association of Queensland held a Junior Doctor Conference on June 28, 2014 in downtown Brisbane. Falun Dafa practitioners held a series of activities to raise awareness in the medical profession and the local community about the ongoing crime of forced organ harvesting in China. Falun Dafa practitioners held a series of…
By Minghui.org “We want to tell people about the human rights abuses of Falun Gong practitioners in China. It is a really good opportunity as a lot of media attention focused on the Chinese prime minister’s visit,” said British Falun Gong practitioner Lee Hall, who participated in a peaceful protest across from 10 Downing Street…
By Hon David Kilgour A lecture at the Taiwanese-Canada Association of Ottawa It was a privilege to revisit Taipei in early April to support the “Sunflower Movement” and its well-founded concerns about Taiwan as a democratic and sovereign nation. Permit me to mention some points I made outside the Legislative Yuan: Public support for the…
By Epoch Times GRAND CANYON, Ariz.–Falun Dafa practitioners set up a display this month hoping to tell Chinese and other tourists about a situation they said the Chinese communist regime is concealing. “We are trying to raise awareness because the Chinese don’t get any truth inside their country because their media is all propaganda, propagandized,” said…
By Epoch Times Medical professionals from around the globe attending the 2014 International Transplantation Congress in London last week condemned the widespread non-consensual organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China. All, that is, except for one Chinese delegate who has carried out transplant operations that number in the thousands. The number of organ transplant operations…
By Epoch Times Until some point in May it was possible to go to the unassumingly titled cntransplant.com website and, then and there, place a phone call to arrange a transplant organ from a hospital in Tianjin, China. “Medinet Healthcare Center. … We are the fruits of one tree, leaves of one branch,” the site once…
THE BOOK The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem by Ethan Gutmann The inside story of China’s organ transplant business and its macabre connection with internment camps and killing fields for arrested dissidents, especially the adherents of Falun Gong. Mass murder is alive and well. That is the stark…
By China’s Forbidden News With the exposure of the CCP’s living organ harvest on Falun Gong practitioners, the mainland people’s signature collection in protest against it continues to grow. After the first three times nearly 18,000 signatures were collected. A few days ago, the media reported that 4700 signatures were collected to condemn the CCP’s…
Ethan Gutmann’s interview on “Uighur attacks in China” can be heard on “China takes over the world” a hot Hong Kong Radio show. LISTEN TO RADIO INTERVIEW A new book titled Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century says that competition between China and the United States is inevitable but it can be…
A Chinese Witness: 14 People Had Their Kidney Changed At Same Time Recently, a Chinese netizen who had his kidney transplanted 13 years ago contacted NTD Television. He said that 14 kidney patients had their kidney changed at the same time with him in the hospital. A doctor told him that the kidney donor was…
Foreword I. Unusual Characteristics of China’s Organ Transplant Operations after Year 2000 1. Extremely short waiting times 2. Ample high quality donor organs 3. Drastic increase in organ transplant numbers II. Using Executed Prisoners to Hide the Real Source of Organs in China 1. From routine denial to admitting ‘very isolated cases’ of extracting organs…
by NTD Television Following the exposure of Chinese Communist Party’s live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, more and more secret investigations have been conducted to identify the authenticity of the allegation. The Slaughter is a new book soon to be released in August. Written by former U.S. think tank researcher Ethan Gutmann, this book illustrates…
April 25, 1999 changed many people’s lives. On that day, more than ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners went to the State Council Appeals Office in Beijing, to peacefully uphold their right to freedom of belief. When the persecution of Falun Gong was fully unleashed not long afterwards, practitioners overseas also went to Chinese embassies or…