Tag: forced organ harvesting

US ‘Will Continue to Focus’ on China’s Forced Organ Harvesting: State Department

WASHINGTON D.C.—Beijing’s state-sponsored forced organ harvesting has remained a concern for the United States, a State Department official told reporters on March 20. The communist regime’s systematic act of forcibly taking organs from prisoners of conscience for sale, which first came to light around 2006 after several whistleblowers came forward to The Epoch Times, has…


Bipartisan Senate Bill Aims to Punish Beijing for Forced Organ Harvesting

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Senate is aiming to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for forcibly harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience. S.761, also dubbed the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act, would authorize the State Department to deny or revoke passports and visas to anyone involved in forced organ harvesting. It would…


Bill Combating Beijing’s Forced Organ Harvesting Advances to House Floor

A bill aimed at combating the Chinese regime’s state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting has cleared the committee and is headed for a vote on the House floor. H.R. 1154, also known as the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023, passed unanimously through the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Feb. 28 and is now advancing to…


Head of Japanese Nonprofit Arrested for Facilitating Unauthorized Organ Transplants Overseas

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on Feb. 7 arrested the head of a nonprofit organization for allegedly violating Japan’s organ transplant law. The organization sent its patients to China for organ transplants between 2017 and 2020, which highlights the Chinese regime’s practice of forced organ harvesting among prisoners of conscience. Hiromichi Kikuchi, 62, is the…


Forced Organ Harvesting From Prisoners of Conscience in China Must End Now

Commentary Chinese state media have accused the U.S. government of being “hysterical,” “laughably juvenile,” and “losing its calm” after U.S. fighter jets shot down four objects, including a Chinese spy balloon, this month. Columns in China Daily, People’s Daily, and Global Times mocked the United States, opining that Washington made a “strong case that the F-22…


China Loses a String of Military Doctors Linked to Forced Organ Harvesting

In the midst of China’s ongoing outbreak of COVID-19, at least 10 Chinese military physicians—many of them surgeons, and all Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members—have died. The list includes a notable surgeon who was suspected of involvement in forced organ harvesting. The deceased doctors join a large number of prominent party members who have died following…


MPs Remove Measures Targeting China’s Hikvision and Forced Organ Harvesting From Procurement Bill

A committee of MPs on Tuesday removed parts of the Procurement Bill that aim to purge Chinese security cameras and accomplices of forced organ harvesting from the UK’s public supply chain. The two clauses were passed in the House of Lords on Dec. 2 despite the fact that the government opposed the proposals, citing technicality issues. But…


Advocate Urges Medical Community to Recognize CCP’s Forced Organ Harvesting

A human rights advocate has urged the international medical community to stop buying into the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) propaganda that denies its systemic forced organ harvesting from detained Falun Gong adherents and other prisoners of conscience. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline with meditative exercises and moral teachings. It…


Virginia State Senators to Biden: Address Communist China’s Crimes

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.—Virginia state senators Mark J. Peake (R-Lynchburg) and Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax) have written a joint letter asking President Joe Biden Biden to “address the crimes that the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] has committed along with the dangers that the party poses.” Citing the Chinese spy balloon flying over America for days before the…


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…