China's Forced Organ Harvesting
- News Stories from 2016 and Before
- News Stories from 2016 and Before
- Petition signatures collected in Czech Republic against Chinese forced organ harvesting. Chinese tourists grateful to hear the truth. NTD.TV (December 2016)
- China harvests organs from human rights activist who died under suspicious circumstances; family had refused consent. China Aid (December 2016)
- Chinese-controlled Miss World officials refuse to allow Anastasia Lin to meet with U.S. State Department about Beijing’s harassment of her father. Epoch Times (December 2016)
- Chinese-controlled beauty pageant muzzles Miss World Canada Anastasia Lin, keeps her from talking to press about forced organ harvesting. Boston Globe (December 2016)
- Anastasia Lin, reigning Miss World Canada and star of feature film “The Bleeding Edge”, entered beauty pageants to call attention to Chinese organ harvesting; now suffering family and career difficulties for speaking out. Boston Globe (December 2016)
- ‘The Bleeding Edge’ – feature film based on true Chinese organ trafficking events – wins award at Vancouver Asian Film Festival. TheBleedingEdgeMovie.com (November 2016)
- Exit of China’s paramilitary force from hospital projects raises hopes of reducing forced organ harvesting. Epoch Times (November 2016)
- Utah doctor felt compelled to fight Chinese organ trafficking after meeting Falun Gong near-victims. KUTV – Salt Lake (November 2016)
- German lawmakers and international researchers devise measures to fight Chinese organ trafficking – stop training Chinese docs, curb export of transplant drugs, etc. Epoch Times (November 2016)
- “Christians among victims of continuing practice of organ harvesting in China”. Christian Times (November 2016)
- Falun Gong:
- faults New Zealand for failing to condemn Chinese organ trafficking. Stuff (November 2016)
- protests in Australia against “transplant tourism” to China. Glen Innes Examiner (November 2016)
- Falun Gong practitioner, now free in the West, narrowly escaped organ extraction while imprisoned in China. Epoch Times (November 2016)
- China’s new ‘stricter’ organ transplant regs are an admission something is wrong, but will they really change anything? Yibada (October 2016)
- Falun Gong protesters campaign for anti-trafficking legislation in New Zealand. Timaru Herald (October 2016)
- Thousands join Falun Gong in San Francisco march against China organ trafficking. Epoch Times (October 2016) (Yo, CCP! There are 70 million Falun Gong. Are you going to kill them all? Why not?)
- Massive organ harvesting persists in China more than 10 years after reforms promised; political dissidents Uyghurs, Tibetans, underground Christians, and Falun Gong among the victims. CNN via Laogai Research Foundation (October 2016)
- Activists on car tour of Canada to raise awareness of state-run, CCP-directed organ harvesting from live Falun Gong adherents in China. South Peace News (September 2016) (Update October 2016: tour reaches 300 cities across Canada)
- Quick turnaround for kidney transplant (3 days) casts doubt on China’s promise it has stopped harvesting organs from executed prisoners. National Post (August 2016)
- Current and past presidents of international Transplantation Society (TTS) failed to disclose conflicts of interests with Chinese transplantation centers; web of connections include potentially lucrative research that could not be done in their home country (Australia), undisclosed meetings, promises of cooperation, joint research projects, and patents. Epoch Times (August 2016)
- Experts question China’s claim it has stopped use of prisoners’ organs for transplant; controversy erupts over international conference held in Hong Kong, with critics calling for maintaining academic embargo on Chinese transplant professionals. New York Times (August 2016)
- “Two in China receive kidney transplants, contract rabies and die”. Los Angeles Times (July 2016)
- Report: 1.5 million Falun Gong practitioners killed since 2001 for organ trafficking. The Daily Courier (July 2016)
- 1,000+ Falun Gong and supporters demonstrate on Capitol Hill against organ trafficking in China. Washington Free Beacon (July 2016)
- 680-page report calls for independent investigation by UN Human Rights Council, and countries to ban organ tourism to China (“BLOODY HARVEST / THE SLAUGHTER An Update” by David Kilgour, Ethan Gutmann and David Matas – June 22, 2016)
- Experts tell U.S. congressional joint subcommittee that number of organ transplants is as high as 100,000 a year; Chinese military profits from extracting organs from Falun Gong and other imprisoned activists. Voice of America (June 2016)
- U.S. House unanimously passes resolution condemning China's organ harvesting from Falun Gong and others. Epoch Times (June 2016)
- Australian professor alleges China has not stopped organ extraction from executed prisoners as promised; more comes out about extraction from live prisoners without anesthestic; China won’t disclose number of transplants; University of Sydney cuts ties with Chinese transplant official. The Ferret (June 2016)
- "Boy, 6, has eyes gouged out in Chinese organ trafficking attack" (stolen for cornea transplants). Toronto Star (2013)