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US State Department Factsheet: Trafficking in Persons for the Purpose of Organ Removal
June 2024: The US State Department (Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons) has published a factsheet on the trafficking in persons for the purpose of organ removal.
Excerpt below:
The government of the People’s Republic of China, in particular, has been accused of systematically forcibly removing organs from political prisoners. For example, a group of UN human rights experts noted in 2021:
Forced organ harvesting in China appears to be targeting specific ethnic, linguistic, or religious minorities held in detention, often without being explained the reasons for arrest or given arrest warrants, at different locations. We are deeply concerned by reports of discriminatory treatment of the prisoners or detainees based on their ethnicity and religion or belief.
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