Publications, Press Releases
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European Parliament Resolution Urges Major Chinese Reforms
2006-09-18
The European Parliament adopted a resolution expressing alarm over a range of Chinese economic, foreign policy, environmental and human rights issues, including the forced removal of organs from imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners. The resolution was passed ahead of the summit in Helsinki between the European Union's executive body and China. -
St. Gallen Taglatt Newspaper (Switzerland): Bachmann Acquitted
2006-09-15
“This cheque has particular symbolic value,” said Erich Bachmann. He received the cheque worth 2,200 Swiss Francs from Hong Kong’s Ministry of Justice, “after we were acquitted by the highest Court of Appeal, which is comparable to our Federal Court.” What happened? In March 2002, Erich Bachmann and fifteen other Falun Gong practitioners held a protest against the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China in a public area in Hong Kong. In 1999, the former President of China ordered this movement to be banned. -
EFGIC: A Call for Justice at EU-China Summit
2006-09-09Helsinki (EFGIC) - Two months ago, an investigative report was published by David Kilgour, former Canadian Secretary of State, and David Matas, a renowned international human rights lawyer. This report concludes that organ harvesting is widespread on live Falun Gong practitioners in China. In the wake of the EU-China Summit in Helsinki, MEP's such as Simon Coveney, Charles Tannock, and Edward McMillan-Scott have co-signed a letter to the European Commission, expressing their concerns on this serious human rights violation. They urge the EU Commission to look into this matter and raise the issue during the Summit. -
UK Newspaper Yorkshire Post: Grandmother Tortured by Chinese – all for her beliefs
2006-09-06
The 66- year- old claims she’s been beaten, force fed and suffered electro-shock therapy at the hands of the Chinese police – all because of her beliefs. Zhen is one of the lucky ones, though, she’s alive ... more than 2300 have been tortured to death. -
UK Newspaper Sunderland Echo Reports: Stand up and be counted against these atrocities
2006-09-05
It is unbelievable and horrific that in this day and age such atrocities are happening in China. I’m talking about the killing and organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience – transplantation of their corneas, kidneys, liver and hearts. It’s like the holocaust all over again, only in China there is big money in the killings with a booming trade in transplants. -
Finnish Media (Hufvudstadsbladet): Falun Gong practitioners protest against the CCP's persecution
2006-08-17On the 23rd of July, Finland’s main newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet published an article about Finland’s Falun Gong practitioners in Helsinki protesting against the Chinese Communist Party’s seven year long persecution of Falun Gong entitled: “Falun Gong Practitioners Protest against the Persecution”. Finnish Falun Gong practitioners are worried about people not paying enough attention to the illegal organs trade in China. Falun Gong practitioner Sinikka Sutakan says: “People find it very difficult to believe that such cruel things are still going on”. -
European Media Reports that European Union Should Adjust the Unbalanced Relationship with Communist China
2006-08-14A report in the “European Voice” said that the excessively weak stand of the European Union in free trade against China is very disappointing. The report also pointed out that the same situation happened in the human rights issues too. Not only is the dialogue between China and the European Union weak, but so is it between China and the fifteen European countries (including Norway and Switzerland). China has greatly enhanced its defense ability in international negotiation; however, in fact its human right situation has not truly improved. The recent incident of a large number of Falun Gong practitioners being forced to “donate” organs is an obvious example. -
Swedish Oriental Daily Newspaper Exposes the CCP's Crimes of Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Practitioners
2006-08-08
"According to the investigation report recently published by a Canadian former MP and a human rights lawyer, sixty thousand organs have been harvested between the year 2000 and 2005 and 41500 organs cannot be traced to their sources. The living prisoners of conscience have become merchandise for making profit. Their organs were harvested when they were lucid ... " -
De Standaard (Belgium): China performs organ harvesting on live prisoners
2006-08-07"Falun Gong practitioners are not only ruthlessly persecuted in China. According to an international investigation, they are also forcefully taken as stock for organ transplant, and are being killed for this purpose. Last week the Canadian David Kilgour, former public prosecutor, State Secretary and Member of Parliament, introduced a report in Brussels. He led his investigation together with attorney David Matas, a famous advocate for human rights and defender of torture victims." -
Finnish Newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet: "A new kind of evil on this Earth”
2006-08-05Matas and Kilgour wrote in this report: “According to what we have found out so far, we come to the tragic conclusions that the allegations are true. We believe there is organ harvesting on a large scale and that huge numbers of Falun Gong practitioners have had their organs removed without their consent.” During a press conference on July 6th in Ottawa, while announcing the publication of his report, David Matas said: “This is a new kind of evil that has never been seen on this Earth.” -
Czech Newspaper Prague Daily Monitor: Falun Gong protests against the CCP’s persecution
2006-08-02Prague Daily Monitor reported on July 20th that about twenty Falun Gong practitioners from Czechoslovakia and other countries gathered at the Chinese Embassy in Prague to protest against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong. On Thursday night, supporters of Falun Gong lit candles to mourn the Falun Gong practitioners who have been persecuted to death by the CCP. Protesters also simulated the organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners in Chinese prisons. -
German Newspaper (Stern): Detained Falun Gong practitioners murdered for their organs in China
2006-08-01A human rights association published that thousands of Falun Gong members were without legal cause detained in slave labour camps. Two human rights activists who researched the matter discovered this hot news. From listening to a number of different phone conversations, it was found that a government representative promised fast delivery of organs at a hospital. The former wife of a surgeon said that her former husband had removed 2,000 corneas over a period of 2 years. -
Czech Newspaper Prague Daily Monitor: Falun Gong protests against the CCP’s persecution
2006-07-30Prague Daily Monitor reported on July 20th that about twenty Falun Gong practitioners from Czechoslovakia and other countries gathered at the Chinese Embassy in Prague to protest against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong. The article reported that the CCP began its persecution of Falun Gong on the same day seven years ago. The protest lasted for twenty-four hours. Protesters first read a letter which protested against the CCP’s violation of human rights. Afterwards, they intended to hand the letter in to the Chinese Embassy but did not succeed. -
Express.de (German Media): Human rights activist: China murders prisoners for organ harvesting
2006-07-27The two human rights activists put together their findings after a two-month investigation. The former state secretary, responsible for Asia and the Pacific, David Kilgour, and the attorney David Matas based their results on telephone conversations with prison camps and hospitals that performed transplants. The official representatives for these institutions promised a speedy delivery of organs. Besides that, the former wife of a Chinese surgeon said that her former husband had removed over 2,000 corneas from human eyes over a period of two years". -
Report from De Morgen (Belgium): ‘Falun Gong followers are being killed for their organs’
2006-07-24That the Falun Gong movement, under persecution in China since July 1999, is subject to virulent repression is nothing new. Hundreds of thousands of people have disappeared within the past few years for a long time, thrown into labour camps, in many cases without any form of trial, but via the convenience of ‘administrative detention’, which approves this kind of deprivation of freedom ... The allegations the two Canadians have formulated in their new report even goes a step further. According to them, Falun Gong followers are being killed only for their organs, and are then being cremated.
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