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"The Chinese government has yet to come clean and be transparent. It remains to be seen how it could be possible that organ transplant surgeries in Chinese hospitals have risen massively since 1999, while there are never that many voluntary donors available. [The allegations of organ harvesting from Falun Gong prisoners] were denied, but the Chinese government has not invalidated them."

-- Manfred Nowak, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture in August 2009 media interview, three years after U.N. experts communicated concerns over allegations of organ harvesting to the Chinese authorities.

"Our conclusion is that there has been and continues today to be large-scale organ seizures from unwilling Falun Gong practitioners. ... Their vital organs, including kidneys, livers, corneas and hearts, were seized involuntarily for sale at high prices."

-- International human rights lawyer David Matas and former high-ranking Canadian official David Kilgour in the introduction to their 2009 book Bloody Harvest: The Killing of Falun Gong for Their Organs

"I would like to further point out that expert testimony given before a subcommittee on the Foreign Affairs Committee appears to corroborate the charges of coercive organ transplants in China. … The stark reality which this resolution addresses gives new meaning to the phrase 'butchers of Beijing.'"

-- U.S. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and author of House Resolution 605 condemning the persecution of Falun Gong in comments made on the House floor prior to the declaration’s passage, March 2010

"The genocidal strategy … comprised a broad range of actions arranged in total contempt for life and human dignity. The designated purpose - the eradication of Falun Gong - was used to justify any means used. Therefore, torment, torture, disappearances, deaths, brainwashing, psychological torture were everyday occurrences in the persecution of its practitioners."

-- Argentine judge Octavio Araoz de Lamadrid

"... If any of the defendants sets foot in a country with which Spain has an extradition treaty, INTERPOL must detain and transport the defendant to Spain to stand trial for the atrocities committed."

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Forced Organ Removal from Falun Gong Prisoners of Conscience

17 Jan 2011

In March 2006, allegations first surfaced of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience being deliberately killed in custody so that their organs could be used in transplant operations. Since then, a series of independent studies and analyses have uncovered evidence affirming the credibility of the allegations, although no doctor has yet to come forth and admit being directly involved in such procedures.

“I would like to further point out that expert testimony given before a subcommittee on the Foreign Affairs Committee appears to corroborate the charges of coercive organ transplants in China. … The stark reality which this resolution addresses gives new meaning to the phrase 'butchers of Beijing.'”
U.S. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and author of House Resolution 605 condemning the persecution of Falun Gong in comments made on the House floor prior to the declaration’s passage, March 2010

Taken together, the available research indicates that Falun Gong prisoners of conscience held in forced labor and prison camps across China are systematically subjected to medical testing clearly not intended to address their own ailments or injuries. The results of such tests are ultimately used to “reverse match” living prisoners to organ transplant patients such that matched Falun Gong detainees are then killed on demand to supply organs to foreign and Chinese patients.

Experts who have investigated the matter estimate that tens of thousands, possibly over 100,000, Falun Gong practitioners have been killed in this manner, generating billions of dollars in profits for Chinese security agencies and under-funded medical facilities. Recent research points to new evidence that Christian, Tibetan, and Uighur Muslim prisoners have been similarly victimized. Despite new Chinese legislation restricting the sale of organs, there is strong reason to believe that the practice continues.

Research into Organ Harvesting Allegations

Shortly after the allegations of organ harvesting from Falun Gong first surfaced, an independent investigation by prominent Canadians David Kilgour and David Matas concluded the allegations were true. In 2008 and 2009, author and think tank researcher Ethan Gutmann published his own findings of suspicious medical testing among Falun Gong and Christian detainees and estimates that the scale of forced organ removal from prisoners of conscience has reached between 13,500 and 162,000 victims.

A number of international bodies and members of the medical community have also found the allegations credible. In a November 2008 legally binding decision, the United Nations Committee against Torture called for an investigation into illicit organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. The committee’s conclusions followed on consistent inquiries transmitted to the Chinese government since August 2006 by Manfred Nowak, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on torture, and Ms. Asma Jahangir, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on religious freedom, which have received unsatisfactory replies.

The following pages present a small sampling of writings by these independent experts raising concerns over organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. In presenting this collection, the Falun Dafa Information Center hopes readers may judge for themselves whether the available information compels them to believe that this horrific practice is taking place and that they may take action accordingly to help end such atrocities.

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