Tag: David Matas

Fighting Foreign Influence: Beijing Exploits Gaps in Canadian Law; David Matas Proposes Remedies

Beijing and other tyrannical regimes exploit gaps in Canadian law to advance their transnational repression in Canada, and a prominent international human rights lawyer says this is a problem that calls for comprehensive legislation to combat their foreign interference. Winnipeg-based lawyer David Matas, senior legal counsel for B’nai Brith Canada, said repressive states like China, Russia,…


PREMIERING NOW: David Matas on Exposing China’s Illicit Organ Trade: ‘The Problem Isn’t Too Little Evidence. It’s Too Much’

“We’ve been lying to ourselves so long, we don’t know the truth when we see it,” says international human rights lawyer David Matas. For nearly two decades now, he has been one of the leading researchers examining the evidence of the Chinese regime harvesting the organs of living Falun Gong practitioners. “The medical profession here…


David Matas on Exposing China’s Illicit Organ Trade: ‘The Problem Isn’t Too Little Evidence. It’s Too Much’

“We’ve been lying to ourselves so long, we don’t know the truth when we see it,” says international human rights lawyer David Matas. For nearly two decades now, he has been one of the leading researchers examining the evidence of the Chinese regime harvesting the organs of living Falun Gong practitioners. “The medical profession here…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: David Matas on Exposing China’s Illicit Organ Trade: ‘The Problem Isn’t Too Little Evidence. It’s Too Much’

“We’ve been lying to ourselves so long, we don’t know the truth when we see it,” says international human rights lawyer David Matas. For nearly two decades now, he has been one of the leading researchers examining the evidence of the Chinese regime harvesting the organs of living Falun Gong practitioners. “The medical profession here…


PREMIERING 3/28 at 7:30PM ET: David Matas on Exposing China’s Illicit Organ Trade: ‘The Problem Isn’t Too Little Evidence. It’s Too Much’

“We’ve been lying to ourselves so long, we don’t know the truth when we see it,” says international human rights lawyer David Matas. For nearly two decades now, he has been one of the leading researchers examining the evidence of the Chinese regime harvesting the organs of living Falun Gong practitioners. “The medical profession here…


How China’s Operating Rooms Became Execution Chambers

“Living people are killed for their organs,” Dr. Torsten Trey says. “This is arguably the biggest violation of medical ethics in history.” Sixteen years ago, the first whistleblowers emerged from China with a story that few could believe: The Chinese communist regime was killing Falun Gong practitioners for their organs. What have we learned about…


‘Courageous Efforts’ of Persecuted Group in China Displayed in Award Winning Film ‘Unsilenced’: Human Rights Lawyer

MELBOURNE, Australia—The efforts by Falun Gong practitioners in bringing out the news of persecution from China were described by a human rights lawyer as “courageous.” That is what David Matas, an award-winning Canadian human rights lawyer and a member of the Order of Canada, said of the award-winning film “Unsilenced,” which was screened at Lido…


Medical Genocide: The Communist Party of China’s Organ Harvesting Industry

Commentary The EpochTV documentary “Medical Genocide: Hidden Mass Murder in China’s Organ Transplant Industry” exposes China’s booming organ transplant industry. Chinese regime officials state that their organs come from death row prisoners or donations, however, reports have emerged in recent years that the organs are harvested from innocent prisoners of conscience who are murdered on…


Australia Can Help Stop Heinous Crimes Committed by Beijing: Human Rights Lawyer

It won’t take a lot for Australia to help stop one of the worst crimes on the planet, said David Matas, an international human rights lawyer based in Winnipeg, Canada, who was attending a rally held by Falun Gong practitioners in front of Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra on Nov. 22. Matas, along with late…


Canadian MPs Urge Passage of Organ Trafficking Bill in Honour of Late Rights Champion David Kilgour

MPs rose in the House of Commons on April 8 to table a petition requesting the passage of a bill combating organ trafficking in honour of David Kilgour, a former cabinet minister and renowned human rights advocate. Kilgour, who had a long career in politics, passed away on April 5 from a rare lung disease….