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CHINA FORCEFULLY HARVESTS ORGANS FROM DETAINEES IN PRISON CAMPS

Источник: https://harryr.substack.com/p/china-forcefully-harvests-organs

By Cliff Reece

The organs of members of marginalized groups detained in Chinese prison camps are being forcefully harvested — sometimes when patients are still alive.

Some of the more than 1.5 million detainees in Chinese prison camps are being killed for their organs to serve a booming transplant trade.

This was determined back in 2019 by the China Tribunal, an independent London-based body that was tasked with investigating organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in the communist state.

The practice is “of unmatched wickedness — on a death for death basis — with the killings by mass crimes committed in the last century,” their report said.

The international community’s lack of response since then to the forced harvesting of organs from Falun Gong practitioners in China has led to the expansion of the practice to encompass Uyghurs, researchers said at a recent conference in Canada.

“Although there was a lot of advocacy, the world didn’t respond too much. The response was very, very slow, and so the Chinese communist regime already developed a lot of technology,” said Maria Cheung, Executive Director of the ‘Falun Gong Human Rights Group’ and Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba in Canada.

“So, with the big detention of the Uyghurs later on, we believe that they are also subjected to forced organ harvesting.”

Cheung was speaking at a panel discussion on forced organ harvesting in China at the International Congress on Law and Mental Health in Montreal, Canada on July 1st.

Other researchers who spoke on the topic include Winnipeg-based international human rights lawyer David Matas, Uyghur Rights Advocacy director Mehmet Tohti, and investigative journalist and author Ethan Gutmann.

China’s practice of harvesting organs from Falun Gong prisoners of conscience first became public through the work of Matas and late Canadian parliamentarian and rights advocate David Kilgour.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance that spread rapidly across China in the 1990s due to its health benefits.

Fearing its popularity, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched a sweeping persecution campaign against the practice in July 1999. Since then, thousands of practitioners have been subjected to surveillance, arbitrary detention, forced labour, brainwashing, torture, and forced organ harvesting.

Matas said during his presentation that following the 2006 publication of the report “Bloody Harvest” which he co-authored with Kilgour, the Transplantation Society - an international NGO headquartered in Montreal, Canada - adopted some policies to prevent complicity in forced organ harvesting in China.

This had the effect of putting pressure on China, Matas said, which in 2015 announced it would stop sourcing organs from executed prisoners.

“They said they would stop sourcing organs from executed prisoners, but they never said they would stop sourcing organs from prisoners of conscience,” he said.

Those researching forced organ harvesting in China have used various approaches to build a picture of the practice amid the almost impossible task of conducting independent research inside China.

Matas and others have noted that China doesn’t have an organ donation culture, so the explosion in the number of transplants conducted after 1999, when the CCP launched its nationwide campaign to “eradicate” Falun Gong, cannot simply be attributed to voluntary donations.

Researchers have looked at the expanding number of beds in hospitals where organ transplants are performed and the proliferation of transplant hospitals across China, as well as the extraordinarily short wait times for obtaining a matching organ, said to be as low as two weeks.

There has also been direct evidence collected from hospitals, whose administrators admitted in phone calls to providing organs from Falun Gong practitioners.

One survivor who escaped a Chinese prison after having parts of his lung and liver removed also came forward in 2024.

Researchers say the Chinese regime views Falun Gong practitioners as a good source for organs because of their healthy habits of not drinking or smoking. In addition, their deaths in prison do not have to be officially accounted for.

Mehmet Tohti said there is a similar theme for the forced organ harvesting targeting the Uyghur ethnic minority in western China.

Inside a Chinese detention centre showing Uyghurs being “re-educated” As Muslims, the Uyghurs do not drink alcohol, and Tohti said Chinese hospitals led a large marketing campaign for “halal” transplants in Gulf and Muslim countries after the regime started targeting Uyghurs for organs.

He noted how China organized the mandatory DNA sampling of more than 15 million people in the Uyghur area of Xinjiang, which he says was done to facilitate the matching of organs.

What followed was the rapid expansion of Chinese transplant hospitals in the region and elsewhere in China, with some catering specifically to Muslim patients with halal food and prayer rooms.

The ‘International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China’ issued a statement in 2021 condemning the promotion of “halal” organ transplantation in Gulf countries.

One witness who escaped China said she noticed that after blood tests were conducted in one concentration camp, certain prisoners would be wearing pink bracelets before they went missing. The people who disappeared were usually in their late 20s or early 30s.

“That’s exactly the age that the Chinese medical establishment prefers for harvesting, because organs are fully grown, but have not started to decline,” he said.

There is some optimism that a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate recently will help reduce forced organ harvesting in China.

The ‘Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act’ is a bipartisan United States legislative measure that seeks to impose sanctions on individuals engaged in the practice and prevent their entry on U.S. soil.

The Canadian Parliament has also adopted a bill to criminalize involvement in forced organ harvesting and make permanent residents and foreign nationals inadmissible to Canada if they are deemed to have been involved.

It’s time the Albanese government also took action to oppose this evil practice.

Maria Cheung discusses forced organ harvesting in China during the ‘International Congress on Law and Mental Health’ in Montreal, Canada on July 1, 2026.

Thanks to NBC News and The Epoch Times together with Horacio Villalobos/Getty Images, BBC News, and Noé Chartier for the images.