Tag: Organ Harvesting in China

Chinese Medical Expert’s Suicide Draws Attention to Questionable Organ Transplant ‘Model’

The suicide of Chinese organ transplant specialist Zang Yunjin has drawn attention to a questionable “Qingdao model” of human organ transplantation. Zang, 57, head of the Organ Transplantation Center at the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, killed himself by jumping off a high building on Feb. 26, a source told the Chinese-language Epoch Times around…


Virginia County Passes Resolution in Support of Falun Gong

Loudoun County recently became the fourth county in Virginia this year to pass a resolution to express support toward Falun Gong and condemn the Chinese Communist Party for killing practitioners for their organs. “The killing of religious or political prisoners for the purpose of selling their organs for transplant is an egregious and intolerable violation…


UK Government Has to Deal With Genocide Amendment ‘One Way or the Other’: Duncan Smith

If the UK government wants its post-Brexit Trade Bill to become law, it has to deal with the genocide amendment “one way or the other,” former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said on Thursday. The genocide amendment aims to stop bilateral trade with genocidal countries, and is the last remaining obstacle to the Trade…


More Legislation Needed to Fight Forced Organ Harvesting: Lord Hunt

After introducing a piece of legislation that regulates the use of imported human tissues in medicine, Lord Philip Hunt of Kings Heath said he would like to see more changes in UK laws to combat forced organ harvesting. Hunt’s amendment, which became law with the Medicines and Medical Devices Bill on Feb. 11, means that “ministers…


Planned Comic Book Aims to Shine Spotlight on Forced Organ Harvesting

The Chinese regime’s practice of killing prisoners of conscience for their organs to sell on the transplant market has been the subject of media articles, books, and documentaries. Now Czech activists have their sights on creating a comic book to raise awareness about the grisly practice. The historical fiction story, created by Milan Kajínek, takes…


Chinese Regime’s Forced Organ Harvesting an ‘Egregious Crime’: Rep. Steube

The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) practice of killing prisoners of conscience for their organs is but one example of its “egregious crimes” that makes it among the worst human rights violators in the world, Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) has said. The congressman, in a video message to an online conference on the CCP’s practice of…


‘It Robs Us of Our Humanity’: Speakers at International Conference Condemn Beijing’s Illicit Organ Harvesting, Call for Action

Over 100 organizations from around the world came together this week in an online conference to shine a light on one of the Chinese Communist Party’s most egregious crimes—killing prisoners of conscience to supply China’s lucrative organ transplantation industry. According to the organizers of the Feb. 24 event, which was co-hosted by the International Coalition…


Third Virginia County Passes Resolution to Condemn China’s Organ Transplant Abuses

Another Virginia county has adopted a resolution to curb organ transplant tourism to China, making it the third one since January to take a stance against Beijing’s forced organ harvesting practices. “It’s a travesty and completely unacceptable,” said Yesli Vega, supervisor for Coles district in Prince William County, who initiated the bill. Allegations that the…


Relative of Shanghai Doctor Reveals Details About Forced Organ Harvesting

A California resident said his relatives in China were involved in state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting and had asked him for patient referrals from the United States, a recent human rights report revealed. Lu Shuping, a U.S. permanent resident originally from Shanghai who is now past 70 years old, gave his full name in making the…


Virginia County Passes Resolution Condemning Forced Organ Harvesting in China

A Virginia county on Jan. 27 unanimously adopted a resolution condemning forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China, particularly from adherents of the spiritual group Falun Gong. While “there has been little media coverage of this problem,” dozens of residents in the state’s Frederick County have come forward to voice concerns, the resolution…