Mounting evidence tells a terrible tale of murder and mutilation in China. Reports from witnesses and Chinese physicians reveal that thousands of Falun Gong practitioners have been killed for their organs, which are sold and transplanted at enormous profit in the transplant trade.
The perpetrators are officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), acting in collaboration with surgeons, prison authorities, and military officials.
Victims are held in concentration camps prior to having their organs harvested, after which the bodies are immediately cremated.
The story, almost too dreadful to believe, was first revealed in March 2006, when a woman claimed that as many as 4,000 Falun Gong had been killed for their organs at the hospital in which she had worked. She also said that her husband, a surgeon at the same hospital outside the northeastern city of Shenyang, had disclosed to her that he had removed cornea from the living bodies of 2,000 Falun Gong practitioners.
One week later, a Chinese military doctor not only corroborated the woman's account but claimed that such atrocities were taking place in 36 different concentration camps throughout the country. The largest, he said, held 120,000 persons. He said he had also witnessed Falun Gong practitioners being massively transported across the country in cattle trains, at night and under the cover of tight security.
Falun Gong supporters and human rights activists overseas immediately began investigating the allegations. They placed calls to Chinese hospitals pretending to be shopping for a kidney or a liver. To their horror, one doctor after another openly confirmed: We've got Falun Gong in stock; just come in and we can get you the organ within a week.
Shocked by these reports, two prominent Canadian human rights lawyers launched their own investigation. In July 2006, former Secretary of State for Asia Pacific David Kilgour and Human Rights lawyer David Matas published their 140-page report, which drew "the regrettable conclusion that the allegations are true." Their research also concluded that the large number of organs transplanted in China since the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999 could not possibly have been provided by voluntary donors or executed prisoners. See Bloody Harvest
CCP officials are reportedly hastening to destroy all evidence. They have provided monitored tours and removed websites that advertised organs for sale (though not in time, as investigators had already managed to save images of these web pages). One Chinese website had boasted that it could provide matching organs in 1-4 weeks, which medical experts say is impossible unless the Chinese hospitals have access to a huge stock of living organ "donors."
Shortly after reports of organ harvesting emerged, Party leaders announced new legislation banning use of organs without consent. Over a year later, this law does not appear to have been implemented at all, supporting those who claimed all along that the legislation was nothing more than a public relations stunt.
Along with Kilgour and Matas, the Committee to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) has taken the lead in uncovering and exposing the organ atrocities. Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting has also been instrumental in raising awareness.
Minghui released an in-depth report on organ harvesting in 2016: Minghui Human Rights Report: Falun Gong Practitioners Systematically Murdered in China for Their Organs
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Nov. 13, 2024Australia: Activities in Canberra Urge the Government to Pass Legislation to Stop Forced Organ Harvesting
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Nov. 1, 2024Hockessin, Delaware: Elected Officials Condemn CCP’s Organ Harvesting After Viewing Documentary
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Nov. 1, 2024Yunlin, Taiwan: Documentary Exposes Forced Organ Harvesting By the CCP
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Sept. 8, 2024Washington DC: Press Conference Calls for End to Forced Organ Harvesting in China
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Aug. 24, 2024Australian Senate Passes Bill to Combat CCP’s Illegal Organ Harvesting
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Aug. 19, 2024Media Outlets Report How CCP Forcibly Harvested Organs from Falun Gong Practitioner Cheng Peiming (Part 1)
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July 23, 2024I Escaped Having My Organs Harvested While I Was Imprisoned in China for Practicing Falun Gong
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July 21, 2024Taiwan: Former Chinese Doctor Exposes CCP’s State-Sanctioned Live Organ Harvesting
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June 30, 2024Australian News Media Exposes CCP Organ Harvesting Crimes
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March 22, 2024CECC Hearing Focuses on Ending Chinese Communist Regime’s Organ Harvesting Crimes
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Feb. 3, 2024U.S. House Speaker Condemns the CCP’s Systemic Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners
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Dec. 18, 2023Taiwan: Kaohsiung City Council Passes Resolution to Support Legislation Opposing Organ Harvesting
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Dec. 18, 2023Virginia, U.S.: Resolution Condemning the Forced Organ Harvesting in China Passed in the City of Manassas
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Nov. 13, 2023Austria: Media Report on Organ Harvesting: “Don’t Become the Chinese Communist Regime’s Accomplice”
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Oct. 29, 2023Seminar Exposing Chinese Communist Party’s Forced Organ Harvesting Crimes Held in Paris
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Oct. 16, 2023Bitter Winter: NGOs Publish Joint Statement Calling for UN Action Against Forced Organ Harvesting in China
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Oct. 16, 2023Japan: Poster Exhibition and Screening the Documentary “Human Harvest” in Saitama Prefecture
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Aug. 24, 2023Legislation in Many Countries Opposes the CCP’s Forced Organ Harvesting
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Aug. 22, 2023Swiss Heart Surgeon Discloses Insights Into China’s Live Organ Harvesting
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Aug. 15, 2023Japan: Visitors to Hiroshima Poster Exhibition Find an Answer to a Fundamental Question
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Aug. 8, 2023Japan: Poster Exhibition Held in Hiroshima Exposes Forced Organ Harvesting in China
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Aug. 4, 2023Fukuoka, Japan: Poster Exhibition Exposes the Chinese Communist Regime’s Live Organ Harvesting
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Aug. 1, 2023Former Nurse of Armed Police Hospital: “Forced Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Practitioners Was an Open Secret”
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July 1, 2023Taipei City Council Passes Resolution to Condemn Forced Organ Harvesting by the CCP
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June 19, 2023Seoul, South Korea: Poster Exhibition Exposes CCP’s Organ Harvesting Crimes
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May 28, 2023Tel Aviv, Israel: Public Opposes the Chinese Communist Regime’s Persecution of Falun Gong
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May 24, 2023Japan: Poster Exhibition Exposing CCP’s Live Organ Harvesting Held in Saitama City
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May 24, 2023Nijmegen and Other Cities in the Netherlands: Dutch People Condemn the CCP’s Organ Harvesting Crimes
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May 20, 2023Medical Professional: Organ Harvesting Closely Related to Everyone
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May 19, 2023Taiwan’s Legislative President Calls for Legislation to Combat the Crime of Forced Organ Harvesting in China
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May 4, 2023Newark, Delaware: Exposing Forced Organ Harvesting in China on College Campus
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April 17, 2023Vermont: Raising Awareness about CCP’s Forced Organ Harvesting at the State Capitol
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April 14, 2023Japan: Medical and Business Professionals Attend Seminar on Ending Medical Genocide
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April 7, 2023Texas, U.S.A.: Hearing Held for Senate Bill Combating China’s Organ Harvesting Crimes
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March 30, 2023U.S. House of Representatives Passes Bipartisan Bill Against Forced Organ Harvesting in China
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March 30, 2023U.S. Congressman: We Must Act Decisively to Stop Live Organ Harvesting by the CCP
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March 3, 2023Japan: Poster Exhibition Exposes Organ Harvesting Atrocities in Communist China
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Dec. 20, 2022Canada: Parliament Unanimously Passes Bill to Combat Live Organ Harvesting
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Dec. 18, 2022Switzerland: Human Rights Organization Submits Petition Calling on the Government to Stop the Chinese Communist Party’s Persecution
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Dec. 18, 2022Woman Invited to Appear on Talk Show to Expose Possible Forced Organ Harvesting From Her Father in China
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Dec. 13, 2022With Global Support, Taiwan Legislators Propose New Bill to Combat Forced Live Organ Harvesting
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Dec. 8, 2022New Zealand: Symposium on CCP Organ Harvesting Calls for End to Atrocity
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Nov. 6, 2022Nurses Summit on Ending Forced Organ Harvesting by the Chinese Communist Party
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Oct. 30, 2022Japan: Canadian Human Rights Lawyer Speaks, Elected Officials Condemn CCP’s Live Organ Harvesting
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Aug. 8, 2022Israeli Television Channels Expose Forced Organ Harvesting in China
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July 16, 2022Swedish MP: Let’s Stop the Chinese Communist Party’s Forced Organ Harvesting Together
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July 10, 2022Media, Lawyers and Medical Experts Respond to U.K.’s New Anti-Organ Trafficking Law
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July 9, 2022New Magazine Article Provides Shocking Details about “China’s Killer Doctors”
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July 4, 2022Brussels: Conference on Forced Organ Harvesting in China Calls for End to CCP Atrocities
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July 3, 2022Washington, D.C.: CCP’s Forced Organ Harvesting Highlighted in International Religious Freedom Summit
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June 29, 2022Japanese Commentator Sees a Victim of Organ Harvesting a Day Before His Death
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June 20, 2022Taiwan Hospital Won't Renew Contracts with Two Surgeons Implicated in Organ Harvesting in China
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June 12, 2022The Telegraph: Forced Organ Harvesting in China and Its Connection with Western Technologies
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May 30, 2022New U.K. Law to Stop Live Organ Harvesting Takes Effect
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May 16, 2022U.S. Congressional Hearing Calls to End Organ Harvesting in China
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Dec. 26, 2021Yilan County, Taiwan: Cross-Party Motion Passed in County Council Calling to End Organ Harvesting by the CCP
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Nov. 26, 2021U.S. Congress Members Urge to Stop the CCP’s Organ Harvesting
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Nov. 16, 2021Local Governments in Virginia Pass Resolutions Condemning Forced Organ Harvesting in China
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Nov. 1, 2021Belgium: Practitioners Demonstrate Exercises at Forum on Forced Organ Harvesting
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Oct. 31, 2021Brussels Press Club: Online Forum Urges Global Mechanism to End CCP Organ Harvesting
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Oct. 21, 2021Hudson Institute: Online Forum Focuses on Organ Harvesting by the CCP
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Oct. 8, 2021Human Rights Lawyer: Former Central 610 Office Chief’s Downfall Signals Consequences of Organ Harvesting
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Oct. 3, 2021Former Italian Parliament Member: We Rely on Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to End the CCP’s Terror
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Oct. 1, 2021Universal Declaration Calls for the Chinese Communist Party to Stop the Atrocity Against Humanity
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Sept. 25, 2021Legal Experts Call for Stronger Legislation to Stop Live Organ Harvesting in China
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Sept. 23, 2021Medical Experts Call Out CCP's Crimes at World Summit on Combating and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting
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Sept. 23, 2021Government Leaders and Lawmakers: Stop Organ Harvesting for “Human Dignity and Fundamental Rights”
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Aug. 18, 2021Virginia’s Middlesex County Passes Resolution to End Organ Harvesting in China
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Aug. 17, 2021Virginia: Eighteenth Resolution Passed by Local Governments To Stop Organ Harvesting in China
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July 25, 2021[7.20 Commentary] More and More Evidence Points to Forced Organ Harvesting
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July 21, 2021Tribune de Genève Report Highlights Ongoing Forced Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners
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June 26, 2021Texas Media Reports on Forced Organ Harvesting
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June 26, 2021A Special Organ Transplant “Recipient”
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June 21, 2021Canada: Experts Urge Canadian Parliament to Pass Bill to Stop Forced Organ Harvesting in China
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June 11, 2021Texas Resolution Condemns Forced Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners, Urging U.S. Government to Prosecute Perpetrators
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May 10, 2021Culpeper County, Virginia Passes Resolution Unanimously Condemning Forced Organ Harvesting in China
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May 4, 2021Texas State Senate Passes Resolution Condemning the CCP’s Organ Harvesting Crimes
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May 2, 2021Westmoreland, Virginia Passes Resolution Condemning Forced Organ Harvesting in China
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April 12, 2021Minnesota State Legislature Introduces Resolution Calling for End to CCP’s Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners
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March 27, 2021Spotsylvania Becomes Eighth Virginia County to Pass Resolution Condemning China’s Organ Transplant Abuses
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March 24, 2021Seventh Virginia County Passes Resolution Condemning Forced Organ Harvesting in China
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March 21, 2021Member of European Parliament: Falun Gong Practitioners Are Main Victims of CCP Organ Harvesting
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March 20, 2021Canadian MPs: The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Has Committed Genocide
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March 20, 2021Dr. David Matas: More Specific Laws Targeting the Chinese Communist Party Needed to End Forced Organ Harvesting
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March 17, 2021Sir Geoffrey Nice QC: Forced Organ Harvesting by the CCP Is a Threat to Mankind
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March 11, 2021U.S. House Representatives and Senators Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Help Stop the CCP’s Forced Organ Harvesting
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March 11, 2021Belgian Media: Bodies of Murdered People Can Never Be Exhibited Respectfully
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March 9, 2021Loudoun County, Virginia Passes Resolution Condemning the CCP's Forced Organ Harvesting
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Feb. 26, 2021Politicians and Experts Alike Condemn CCP's Forced Organ Harvesting
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Feb. 22, 2021U.K. Passes Law to Combat China’s State-sanctioned Organ Harvesting Crimes
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Feb. 2, 2021Virginia County Passes Resolution Condemning Forced Organ Harvesting in China
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Jan. 31, 2021Spanish TV Station Reports on Forced Organ Harvesting in China
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Jan. 30, 2021Poster Competition Exposes Live Organ Harvesting in China
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Jan. 18, 2021Virginia: Shenandoah County Passes Resolution to Condemn Forced Organ Harvesting in China
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Jan. 17, 2021The Process of Forced Organ Harvesting Revealed by a Witness
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Dec. 20, 2020Taichung, Taiwan: Seminar Attendees Condemn the Chinese Communist Regime’s Live Organ Harvesting as “State Level Murder”
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Dec. 18, 2020Bipartisan Bill Introduced in U.S. Congress to End Organ Harvesting in China
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Dec. 6, 2020Falun Gong Practitioners Targeted for Forced Organ Harvesting, Says Israeli Media Report
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Oct. 8, 2020France: 65 National Assembly Members Initiate Bill to Stop Forced Organ Harvesting
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Aug. 23, 2020National Review: New Evidence of Forced Organ Harvesting in China