Organ Harvesting in China

A medical journal has retracted a disputed study on liver transplantation co-authored by a Chinese doctor implicated in forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience, a move that acknowledges concerns over the Chinese regime’s murky transplantation system and may spur other journal editors to enforce stricter ethical guidelines, according to researchers. The disputed study, published […]

The Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences has run into controversy for inviting a speaker linked to forced organ harvesting in China to present the regime’s narrative at the Vatican’s Summit on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism on Feb. 7 and 8. The summit was held in hopes of addressing the problems of organ trafficking and transplant […]

LOS ANGELES—One of the nation’s top hospitals, the UCLA Medical Center, has chosen to partner with a hospital directed by a Chinese physician suspected of mass murder. UCLA Medical Center hospitals consistently rank among the top in the nation. U.S. News & World Report ranked its Westwood and Santa Monica hospitals No. 1 in California […]

A staff symposium planned at Westmead Hospital by NSW Health was cancelled just 2 days before a delegation of Chinese doctors from Qilu Hospital of Shandong University were scheduled to appear. The decision to shelve the event came after Westmead General Manager, Andrew Newton and Western Sydney Local Health District CEO, Danny O’Conner were informed […]

Two prominent human rights lawyers are urging Australian lawmakers to pass a motion to end the Chinese Communist Party’s practice of harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience, namely Falun Gong practitioners, reported The Associated Press on Nov. 21. David Matas, a longtime human rights lawyer, David Kilgour, a former prosecutor and Canadian Member of Parliament, and […]

OTTAWA—Two investigators who have spent 10 years researching evidence of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China told Parliament’s human rights subcommittee that the practice of killing for profit-driven transplants continues unabated in China today. International human rights lawyer David Matas and former Crown attorney and cabinet minister David Kilgour presented the findings […]

Editor’s note: This report contains graphic and potentially disturbing material. For the past 17 years, in scores of Chinese prisons and jails, unspeakable forms of torture are still rampant. One man, Jintao Liu, described the brutal mistreatment he endured and what it was like, in a recent Australian news segment. He was woken up as pins were […]

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang this week, he must address forced organ harvesting in China, says international human rights lawyer David Matas. Matas, a former delegate to the United Nations for Canada, Member of the Order of Canada, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is among a group of investigators […]

While providing some editing assistance, we became convinced that the horrible was happening. The logic was implacable: there were just too many transplants to be the consequence of prisoner executions or families volunteering their brain-dead members.

For Canadians with family members who are imprisoned in China for handing out flyers and similar “crimes,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s trip there on Aug. 30 offers a glimmer of hope. Hongyan Lu, of Ottawa, has held press conferences and protests about her mother’s forced disappearance on June 3 when Chinese security personnel in Shijiazhuang […]

What was supposed to be a celebration of organ transplant reform in China has descended into contention and conflict.

Potentially lucrative treatment for diabetes, developed in China, not divulged, as doctors pronounced on Chinese ‘reform’

For years, gaining attention for forced organ harvesting in China was difficult to achieve because the crime itself was too horrible to believe. This understandable horror may now be leading some observers to be too eager to believe this atrocity has now ended. Take, for example, Dr. Francis L. Delmonico, past president (serving 2012–2014) and […]

Falun Gong practitioners in the 100-odd countries where the spiritual discipline is practised take every opportunity to raise awareness about the ongoing abuses toward their fellow practitioners in China. That has been the case since 1999 when the Chinese Communist Party under then-leader Jiang Zemin launched a widespread campaign of persecution against the group. So when […]

More than two hundred Falun Gong practitioners and supporters held an annual rally on a high bluff overlooking a Southern California beach on July 17.

A decade ago, two Canadians released a report on illicit organ harvesting in China so shocking that many struggled to believe it. Since then, the investigation has continued and they’ve now updated their findings in a report that details the industry that has sprung up in China around the harvesting of human organs. David Kilgour, […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The authors of a new report about state-led organ harvesting in China presented their findings at the National Press Club on June 22, calling it a “slow motion genocide” that has led to likely over 1 million organs removed from unwilling donors. “This fits the pattern of King Leopold and the Congo, and the […]

Epoch Times: What is this new report? What’s new and significant about it? David Matas: It’s an update on the work Ethan Gutmann and I have done. What prompted me, and I guess all of us, was that historically things are moving on, and there’s new information constantly pouring out about the stuff that we’ve […]

Epoch Times: What’s the most important new finding in this new report? David Kilgour: The Party-state in China argues that there are around 10,000 organ transplants across the country—but this update shows beyond any reasonable doubt that it’s an industrial-scale industry, it’s many times larger than previously believed, and we’re talking about many tens of […]

WASHINGTON—Transplant surgeons in China are awash in human organs. Some complain of working 24-hour shifts, performing back-to-back transplant surgeries. Others ensure they’ve got spare organs available, freshly harvested—just in case. Some hospitals can source organs within just hours, while others report having two, three, or four backup organs, in case the first organ fails. All […]