(Minghui.org) State Organs, a documentary on the suppression of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), was screened at the City of Albany in Western Australia on March 15, 2026. A city councilor hosted the event at the city hall and wrote an article afterwards to expose the CCP’s cruelty.
About 20 years ago, two young people mysteriously went missing in China, and their families did everything they could to find out what happened. Through firsthand testimonies and exclusive interviews, the documentary depicts the horrifying practice of forced organ harvesting—an unprecedented crime against innocent Falun Gong practitioners.
Albany City Hall is an iconic historical heritage building in Western Australia.
The documentary State Organs was screened on March 15.
City Councilor: Stop Doing Evil
Albany, a port city in Western Australia, is about 400 kilometers (260 miles) south of Perth, the state capital. The screening was co-hosted by businessman Mark Hutchison and city councilor Thomas Brough.
Businessman Mark Hutchison and City Councilor Thomas Brough co-hosted the screening.
Brough, an emergency physician, was elected to the Albany City Council in 2021. This was the first time he had seen the film. Before the event, he read Bloody Harvest: The Killing of Falun Gong for Their Organs, written by human rights lawyer David Matas.
After he saw the film, Brough wrote an article titled “Guardrails: What stops doctors from doing evil is not what most people think” and published it in Public Record, an independent Australian editorial project that covers institutions and public life. Link to the full text: https://publicrecord.media/guardrails/
Screenshot of “Guardrails: What Stops doctors from doing evil is not what most people think” written by Thomas Brough
Brough wrote, “I work in emergency medicine. I have worked alongside doctors of every temperament and disposition. I told the audience what I believe to be true: that the doctors who harvest organs from prisoners in China are not a different species from the doctors who work in Australian hospitals. They are not uniquely evil. They are ordinary.
“Alexander Solzhenitsyn observed that the line dividing good and evil cuts through every human heart. Doctors are not exempt. Medical training does not confer moral immunity. Neither does an oath. Evil is interior to the human person. But systems determine how much room it gets,” he continued.
Citing findings from the 2019 China Tribunal, an independent people’s tribunal chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice KC, who served as lead prosecutor at the trial of Slobodan Milošević, Brough said the conclusion was clear: Forced organ harvesting has been committed throughout China on a significant scale. Falun Gong practitioners were identified as the principal source of organs.
He also agreed with Matas that, “The problem, he argues, is not uniquely Chinese. It is a problem inherent to communist systems.
“The answer the audience member was looking for is not complicated. Doctors are not morally different from anyone else,” Brough concluded. “To expect otherwise is to misunderstand human nature.”
Audience Support
Several audience members shared their thoughts after the screening. “Obviously, watching movies like this is horrendous; you can only describe the communist party as evil. What they have inflicted on Falun Gong is evil,” one man said.
Audience members discuss the documentary.
One woman who used to live in China said she was not aware of the situation concerning Falun Gong until 2014. “I spent a while living in China, as a student in different areas and teaching English. I just wanted to share that communism isn’t apparent until you leave. When I was living in the country, I didn’t notice it, I didn’t feel it. But when I visited South Korea or went to Hong Kong I saw people protesting in the streets, and it became very obvious all of a sudden how oppressed the people in China are,” she explained.
“Many times when I lived there, I accidentally and naively brought up the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre or Falun Gong in conversation, and people would hush me up and say, ‘Don’t talk about that,’” she continued. “I witnessed how the communist Party twisted stories to suit their agenda.”
Another audience member focused on the “supply-and-demand dynamics” underlying organ transplantation and raised questions regarding regulation and legal liability. He said it was clear that these organs were being purchased not only by people in China but also by individuals in Perth, Australia, and other countries.
Brough explained that this kind of organ harvesting is illegal in Australia and that the country is actively working to close loopholes in relevant legislation and enforcement. He said that many people who have transplants may not be aware that they are the recipients of these organs, nor do they understand that a chain of killing was involved. One way to address this issue is by exposing the crime.
Another audience member said she was very moved by the documentary: “I’m absolutely blown away with what you have done here. We have to educate [people], we have to speak out, we have to find the truth.”
After the discussion, which lasted about 40 minutes, the hosts encouraged those in the audience to follow up on this issue, explore it further, and share the information so that more people will know what is going on.
People shared their thoughts after the screening.
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Category: Organ Harvesting
