The U.S. Department of State (DOS) published its “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2013” on February 27, 2014 stated that forced organ harvesting from prisoners is an ongoing issue in China.
This is the third year that the DOS reported the issue of organ harvesting in China, which includes practitioners imprisoned for their religious beliefs, members of religious and ethnic minority groups, and a large number of Falun Gong practitioners.
Just last year in December, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on the People’s Republic of China to “immediately end the practice of organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience.”
On December 9, an international delegation of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting delivered a petition to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights which was signed by 1.48 million people from 53 countries.
The petition asked the high commissioner to call for “an immediate end of forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China,” to initiate investigations that will lead to the prosecution of those responsible for crimes against humanity and to call upon the Chinese government to end the persecution of Falun Gong.
According to the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), organ harvesting practices of live Falun Gong practitioners are not individual, isolated, occasional murder-for-money cases, but widespread, state-orchestrated, systematic mass-killing and genocide across the whole country, plotted directly from the highest-level Communist leaders, including former Communist party chief Jiang Zemin and his cronies.
One of the main documents the EU parliament base their research on is the investigation done by former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas. They found that from 2000 to 2005 more that 40,000 transplant operations were conducted while the source of organs was unknown. The report also states that there were at least 52 indirect sources of evidence of illegal organ harvesting, including descriptions on Chinese hospitals’ websites that offered organ transplantations promising to find an organ in less than two weeks.
Kilgour and Matas said that the rise in organ transplants in China concurred with the persecution campaign launched in 1999 by former Communist party leader Jiang Zemin to eradicate practitioners of the spiritual practice of Falun Dafa also known as Falun Gong.
As the practice of Falun Gong was growing rapidly, it reached from 70 to 100 million people in the mainland and was starting to spread world-wide. The Communist Party leader feared losing ideological control and power as there were more people practicing Falun Gong than members enrolled in the party. He used all state mechanisms including TV channels, radio, newspapers and diplomacy to fabricate lies and suppress practitioners of Falun Gong.
One of the famous hoaxes was the so-called self-immolations by Falun Gong practitioners that have occurred on Tiananmen Square in January, 2001. Later NTD Television broadcast the award-winning documentary “False Fire” analyzing the inconsistencies in the immolations story. It provides about 50 facts that prove the Chinese authorities have staged the self-immolation to justify their persecution campaign and turn public opinion against Falun Gong. Also, a Washington Post reporter found that at least self-immolators were not Falun Gong practitioners.
The Falun Dafa Information Center estimates that hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners are, to this day, detained within China’s detention facilities at any one time, making them the single largest group of prisoners of conscience in China.
Popular torture techniques include shocking with electric batons, burning with irons, tying the body in painful positions for days, force-feeding saline solutions through a plastic tube inserted in the nose, and prying out fingernails with bamboo shoots, to name a few; rape and sexual torture of the Falun Gong in detention have also been reported.
According to the Centre, since the crackdown a total of 3,746 deaths have been documented, though the actual figures are said to be much higher. Official figures are unknown, as China controls all information coming in and out of the country.
The Falun Dafa Practice
Falun Dafa was started by Mr. Li Hongzhi in 1992. Mr. Li Hongzhi toured mainland China to give talks to all those wishing to attend. The practice spread quickly and just in seven years it grew from from 70 to 100 million practitioners. Falun Dafe includes five sets of exercises along with a text that teaches about the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. Nowadays, Falun Gong is practiced in more than 70 countries.
Through consistent and dedicated practice, students of Falun Gong strive to achieve a state of selflessness, greater insight, awareness, and inner purity.
Falun Gong has been the subject of many citations, awards, and proclamations, conferred by government officials and a number of organizations. Many of those who practice Falun Gong have been the recipients of service awards in their communities and at their workplaces.
The practice’s founder, Mr. Li Hongzhi, is a five-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and was nominated by the European Parliament for the Sakharov Prize For Freedom of Thought. He is also the recipient of Freedom House’s International Religious Freedom Award.
During the 1990s, prior to a dramatic and violent change in political winds in 1999 which saw the practice persecuted, Falun Gong and its followers also received much in the way of official recognition in China. For example, In 1993, Mr. Li was named the “Most Welcomed Qigong Master” in Beijing and bestowed by an official body with the Award for Advancing Frontier Science.
This is the third year that the DOS reported the issue of organ harvesting in China, which includes practitioners imprisoned for their religious beliefs, members of religious and ethnic minority groups, and a large number of Falun Gong practitioners.
Just last year in December, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on the People’s Republic of China to “immediately end the practice of organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience.”
On December 9, an international delegation of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting delivered a petition to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights which was signed by 1.48 million people from 53 countries.
The petition asked the high commissioner to call for “an immediate end of forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China,” to initiate investigations that will lead to the prosecution of those responsible for crimes against humanity and to call upon the Chinese government to end the persecution of Falun Gong.
According to the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), organ harvesting practices of live Falun Gong practitioners are not individual, isolated, occasional murder-for-money cases, but widespread, state-orchestrated, systematic mass-killing and genocide across the whole country, plotted directly from the highest-level Communist leaders, including former Communist party chief Jiang Zemin and his cronies.
One of the main documents the EU parliament base their research on is the investigation done by former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas. They found that from 2000 to 2005 more that 40,000 transplant operations were conducted while the source of organs was unknown. The report also states that there were at least 52 indirect sources of evidence of illegal organ harvesting, including descriptions on Chinese hospitals’ websites that offered organ transplantations promising to find an organ in less than two weeks.
Kilgour and Matas said that the rise in organ transplants in China concurred with the persecution campaign launched in 1999 by former Communist party leader Jiang Zemin to eradicate practitioners of the spiritual practice of Falun Dafa also known as Falun Gong.
As the practice of Falun Gong was growing rapidly, it reached from 70 to 100 million people in the mainland and was starting to spread world-wide. The Communist Party leader feared losing ideological control and power as there were more people practicing Falun Gong than members enrolled in the party. He used all state mechanisms including TV channels, radio, newspapers and diplomacy to fabricate lies and suppress practitioners of Falun Gong.
One of the famous hoaxes was the so-called self-immolations by Falun Gong practitioners that have occurred on Tiananmen Square in January, 2001. Later NTD Television broadcast the award-winning documentary “False Fire” analyzing the inconsistencies in the immolations story. It provides about 50 facts that prove the Chinese authorities have staged the self-immolation to justify their persecution campaign and turn public opinion against Falun Gong. Also, a Washington Post reporter found that at least self-immolators were not Falun Gong practitioners.
The Falun Dafa Information Center estimates that hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners are, to this day, detained within China’s detention facilities at any one time, making them the single largest group of prisoners of conscience in China.
Popular torture techniques include shocking with electric batons, burning with irons, tying the body in painful positions for days, force-feeding saline solutions through a plastic tube inserted in the nose, and prying out fingernails with bamboo shoots, to name a few; rape and sexual torture of the Falun Gong in detention have also been reported.
According to the Centre, since the crackdown a total of 3,746 deaths have been documented, though the actual figures are said to be much higher. Official figures are unknown, as China controls all information coming in and out of the country.
The Falun Dafa Practice
Falun Dafa was started by Mr. Li Hongzhi in 1992. Mr. Li Hongzhi toured mainland China to give talks to all those wishing to attend. The practice spread quickly and just in seven years it grew from from 70 to 100 million practitioners. Falun Dafe includes five sets of exercises along with a text that teaches about the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. Nowadays, Falun Gong is practiced in more than 70 countries.
Through consistent and dedicated practice, students of Falun Gong strive to achieve a state of selflessness, greater insight, awareness, and inner purity.
Falun Gong has been the subject of many citations, awards, and proclamations, conferred by government officials and a number of organizations. Many of those who practice Falun Gong have been the recipients of service awards in their communities and at their workplaces.
The practice’s founder, Mr. Li Hongzhi, is a five-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and was nominated by the European Parliament for the Sakharov Prize For Freedom of Thought. He is also the recipient of Freedom House’s International Religious Freedom Award.
During the 1990s, prior to a dramatic and violent change in political winds in 1999 which saw the practice persecuted, Falun Gong and its followers also received much in the way of official recognition in China. For example, In 1993, Mr. Li was named the “Most Welcomed Qigong Master” in Beijing and bestowed by an official body with the Award for Advancing Frontier Science.
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