Publications, Press Releases

• Austrian Newspaper Reports a Lawsuit against the Perpetrators of the Persecution of Falun Gong

  2007-01-01
  On December 16th, an Austrian newspaper carried a report from the Austrian Press Agency. The report said that a lawsuit against several chief perpetrators of the persecution of Falun Gong had been recently filed in Vienna. The report said that a lawsuit against Liu Qi has been filed to the Vienna Procuratorate. Liu is the president of the Beijing Olympic Games Organising Committee. The Austrian Falun Gong Association charged Liu and three other high ranking Chinese Communist Party officials with “Genocide and Crimes against Humanity.”
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• Bremer Tageszeitung (Germany): Highlighting the brutal organ harvesting and protesting against the horror of the Chinese camps

  2006-12-31
  "Vegesack: A German-Chinese human rights group attracted lots of attention last Saturday in the local outdoor shopping district. Activists were protesting against the forced removal of organs from political prisoners in China. The group had erected a cage surrounding Rosa Jansohn of Ritterhude in the vicinity of the former Kramer’s department store. They explained that similar cages are used in Chinese labour camps, where enclosed inmates are partially immersed in water for hours on end. If the prisoners get too sleepy, they are likely to drown."
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• The Nordland Daily (Norway): Travelling all over Europe to rescue my imprisoned younger sister

  2006-12-17
  In March, Falun Gong practitioner Liu Jin was illegally arrested by the CCP and sentenced to three years imprisonment for “interfering with the execution of the law of the state”. Kind-hearted people helped her sister Liu Ying, who lives in Norway, to contact a local newspaper, which subsequently interviewed Liu Ying.
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• The Epoch Times (German Edition): Appeal for human rights for Falun Gong practitioners in China

  2006-12-12
  The Lower House of the German Parliament and Federal Government must address earnestly the plight of Falun Gong practitioners in China with the political regime of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), including issues such as freedom of belief ... The Petition Taskforce of the Lower House of the German Parliament decided the above unanimously on November 22nd.
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• TAZ (German newspaper): People executed, then butchered

  2006-12-10
  "The Ministry of Health in China admitted at a physician’s conference, that the majority of organs used for transplant operations are taken from people who were executed. Beijing keeps silent about the number of death sentences but Amnesty International estimates that in 2005, the number was around 1,770 ... “China has so far deflected all discussions about this topic”, says Nicholas Bequelin, a Hong Kong based member of the human rights organisation Human Rights Watch. He thinks that transplantation medicine affects one of the most important human rights problems in China: the death penalty and the decline of medical ethics when organs are traded."
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• Irish Joint Committee on Affairs Issues Press Release about CCP’s Organ Harvesting Against Falun Gong Practitioners in China

  2006-12-03
  "A report investigating the possible organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners has alleged in its conclusion that "the Chinese Government has over the past half decade put to death a large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience" and "simultaneously seized their vital organs for sale at high prices", the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs was told this morning. The Joint Committee was being addressed by former Canadian Secretary of State for the Asia Pacific region Mr. David Kilgour who co-authored the report with Mr. David Matas, an international human rights lawyer."
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• Irish Times: China to be Questioned on 'Organ Harvesting'

  2006-11-25
  "China's ambassador to Ireland is to be asked to appear before an Oireachtas committee to discuss claims that the Chinese authorities have been harvesting bodily organs from prisoners. A report investigating alleged organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China was presented to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs today. Former Canadian secretary of state for the Asia Pacific region, David Kilgour, who co-wrote the report with international human rights lawyer David Matas, addressed the committee today."
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• Prague Daily Monitor: March in Prague Against Human Rights Violations in China on Friday

  2006-11-24
  "Organs are removed alive from imprisoned members of the Falun Gong movement in China," David Kilgour, lawyer and former Canadian State Secretary for Asia and the Pacific Area, says in a report he presented at a seminar in the Chamber of Deputies today. Kilgour says in his report that people are killed during the removal of organs or immediately after it. He plans to speak at a rally at Prague Castle tomorrow that will convene after a public march across Prague to raise awareness of the issue.
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• UK Human Rights Report 2006 Critical of Regime in China

  2006-10-28
  “The Chinese authorities continue to violate a range of basic human rights. The use of the death penalty remains extensive and non-transparent; torture is widespread; there is a lack of judicial independence; obstacles to fair trials include administrative detention and re-education through labour (RTL); prison conditions are poor and prisoners are treated badly; human rights defenders, worshippers and Falun Gong adherents face harassment and detention ... "
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• Agence Télégraphique Suisse (ATS): United Nations to Investigate CCP Organ Trade

  2006-10-19
  On September 26th, Agence Télégraphique Suisse (ATS) of Switzerland published an article entitled “The United Nations is to Investigate China’s Organ Trade”. The article said that China was not able to stop the discussion in the UN Human Rights Commission about the allegation that it harvested organs from Falun Gong practitioners. The current meeting of commission members ended on October 6th. The UN rapporteur will look into the allegation and report back to the UN.
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• Ruhr News (Germany) Reports on CCP Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Practitioners

  2006-10-18
  "A large ‘medical operation’ took place on Kortumstraße Street on Monday at noon: a man wore a surgeon's gown and mask and a mannequin 'patient' lay on the surgical table in front of him whose body had been opened, and the ‘doctor’ was taking out the patient’s organs which were still bleeding. The Falun Gong practitioners in Bochum protested the atrocity of harvesting the organs from living people, which is happening in China, through this shocking scene on Falun Dafa Information Day."
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• Blick (Switzerland): Horrible organ trade

  2006-10-15
  ZÜRICH – A flyer is making the rounds in the country. Whoever accepts this flyer reads about organ harvesting in China. This is an accusation that was confirmed by international experts. One first reads in this flyer, found on Switzerland’s trains, the story of Wang Yuzhi. This forty five year old lady was imprisoned in a Chinese labour camp from 2000 to 2002. The Falun Gong member was force fed after going on a hunger strike. She suffered from being force fed through an oversized tube that was forced through the nose to the stomach. She was fed with her feces and urine.
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• Coburger Tagesblatt Daily Paper (Germany): Meditation to combat crime in China

  2006-10-14
  COBURG. The passers-by in the Spitalgasse saw yesterday an unusual picture - close to a dozen members of the dangerously suppressed Falun Gong movement in China sending righteous thoughts towards China. They wanted to call attention to the fact that the Peoples Republic sells “human body organs for profit,” said the co-organiser Yuan Zhang.
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• The Standard (Austria): UNO-Consultant Nowak investigates the organ trade

  2006-10-13
  Geneva: Against China’s wishes, the United Nations Organization’s (“UNO”) Human Rights Counsel in Geneva is looking into the alleged organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners. The UNO rapporteur for torture, the Austrian Manfred Nowak, will investigate the grave accusations. “The responses by the Chinese authorities to our inquiries are disappointing,” said the Canadian Human Rights lawyer David Mata on Tuesday in Geneva. “They insult us instead of disproving the accusations.”
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• Germany: Local Media Reports on the Persecution

  2006-09-23
  On August 26th, a Chinese lady Luyi Schwab held a Falun Gong information day in Herrenberg to raise public awareness of the persecution of Falun Gong in her homeland. Local newspaper Gäubote published an article on her event beforehand. The article said that the information day will touch upon the Chinese Communist regime's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Luyi Schwab stated that these practitioners' organs were removed by the Chinese Communist regime for sale.
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