Vatican Radio Reports Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Practitioners

On March 30th, 2007, the Vatican radio station “Sound of the Pope and Catholicism” broadcast a German-language programme entitled “Organ trading, murdering the prisoners”

In the programme it said that "the International Society for Human Rights, headquartered in Frankfurt, declared that body organs were harvested from living persons being imprisoned in some state-run organizations in China, and that the organs then were sold. The human rights association explained that these atrocities were first learned of one year ago.

“On March the 30th, at a seminar on China Affairs, two Canadian lawyers reported that doctors harvested organs in the situation of the victim being anesthetized. During or after the surgery process, the victim died.

“The two Canadians believed that the victims are Falun Gong practitioners. They said that because the remains are cremated, it is not possible to obtain corpses with organs harvested as evidence. The Chinese authorities refused to allow them to enter to China to conduct their investigation. From 2000 to 2005, there were 41,500 organs of unknown origin transplanted in China”