Publications, Press Releases
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Swedish Daily Sydsvenska Dagbladet:“We Can Not Turn a Blind Eye to the Crime of Organ Harvesting"
2006-07-21"The condition of prisoners in China is increasingly well known but it is only in recent months that a particular mistreatment of Falun Gong practitioners has come to light, namely the selection of prisoners for 'reverse-match' organ and tissue transplants, leading to their deaths. This is genocide, as defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide". -
St. Galler Journal (Switzerland): Asylum applicant with HSG degree
2006-07-20"She also tells of her mother, who introduced her daughter to Falun Gong and who is detained in a Chinese prison for one and a half years. Falun Gong has been banned in China since 1999. She has not heard anything from her mother since that year. She has fought for her release with signature campaigns. Xiaoyang Wang explained that her father had warned her not to return to China. At the same time, he asked her to also watch out for herself in Switzerland. The arm of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a long reach". -
German Newspaper (Frankfurter Rundschua) on Kilgour Report into Organ Harvesting
2006-07-19The report includes translations of phone calls with staff members in prisons and clinics, who admit that Falun Gong members are used as a living organ bank. The report also disclosed that there are no surviving victims who can expose the truth. The “scene of the crime” leaves no trace, because the victims are cremated. China has not opened its doors for an inspection to put the accusation to rest. The Canadian regime will investigate the accusations. -
Report in German Newspaper Buersche Zeitung: "More and more people practice Falun Gong"
2006-07-17“The means of brainwashing in Shanghai labour camp is very sly. They don’t beat people. The guards are kind and friendly to Falun Gong practitioners on the surface. But every Falun Gong practitioner is arranged to stay alone in a squadron of prisoners. A dozen prisoners watch one practitioner day and night. They never punish Falun Gong practitioners but punish the watchers. If practitioners do not give up their belief, the labour camp does not let them do their chores of daily life, but let the watchers do it for them". -
Belgian News Agency Reports on China's Illegal Organ Trade
2006-07-16"(BELGA) Since 1999, the Chinese government has executed an unknown number of adherents of the spiritual movement Falun Gong in various places in the country, especially in hospitals, forced labour camps and prisons. Without any written consent, their vital organs are also sold for high prices to foreigners. This is claimed by David Kilgour, former Canadian MP, and David Matas, international human rights lawyer. In Brussels today, thursday, Kilgour presented an independent investigation report, in which they claim to reveal indisputable evidence about the illegal organ trade." -
AFP Photo Report: Report Exposing Organ Harvesting from Living People in China
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Norwegian National Media Reports on CCP's Trade in Organs Harvested from Falun Gong Practitioners
2006-07-15Kilgour and Matas point to the difficulty trying to prove the allegations, as a result of them being denied permission to travel to China to do this research. However "everything seems to point to the fact that thousands of prisoners are having their organs removed forcefully without consent, to become items for transplantations. Thereafter the prisoner dies, are cremated and all evidence is removed" according to NRK. According to NRK, the report further says that, "many arrested Falun Gong-practitioners are missing, and nobody knows what happened to them. It is likely that many of these have had their organs removed". -
German Newspaper Reports on a Falun Gong Parade
2006-07-11On July 2nd, German newspaper Buersche Zeitun published an article entitled “Falun Gong protest to call for attention to human rights in China.” The article reported on a Falun Gong parade held in Gelsenkirchen where a World Cup quarter final game was held. The report said that Falun Gong has become well-known worldwide since the persecution started in China and more and more people have come to practice the exercises. The report said that near 100 supporters of Falun Gong participated in this activity in order to let more people know about the persecution. -
New Independent Report Concludes Falun Gong Organs Being Harvested, Victims Killed
2006-07-08NEW YORK (Falun Dafa Information Centre) - A 45-page investigative report was released on Thursday that addresses allegations of organ harvesting from Falun Gong detainees; the Falun Dafa Information Centre is calling the report, "vitally important". Coauthored by former Canadian Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific) David Kilgour and human rights attorney David Matas, the report draws "the regrettable conclusion that the allegations are true." Speaking with the press, Kilgour said on Wednesday that, "I don't think anyone can have any doubt that this unbelievable practice is continuing... They take both kidneys, then the heart and the skin and the corneas and the liver, and your body is then thrown in the incinerator." -
Article from Stornoway Today: Campaign to Halt Organ Harvesting Comes to Western Isles
2006-07-04Following a meeting last month with two Falun Gong practitioners in Beijing (one of them was subsequently held under house arrest, the other hasn't been heard from since), Edward McMillan-Scott, a European Parliament Vice- President, revealed: "The practitioners I met in Beijing told me of their imprisonment and that of their wives, of the specially harsh treatment they suffered, including sleep deprivation, degrading and humiliating punishments and beatings. One said he knew 30 fellow practitioners who had been beaten to death. They were aware of organ harvesting — one had seen the cadaver of his friend and fellow practitioner after body parts had been removed." -
Danish Newspaper Reports on Organ Harvesting in China
2006-06-29Danish broadsheet newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands Posten published an article on the 16th of May entitled “Organ Harvesting in China”. It was written by Christoffer Brekne, the spokesman of a Danish NGO called “China Human Rights Network”. The article says that the organ removals happening in the Chinese Communist Party’s concentration camps is the most evil thing in the world today. -
German Media Pays Attention to Wang Xiaoyan Being Arrested in China
2006-06-27The People newspaper of Leipzig carried an article reporting the news that the wife of a Chinese student abroad has been kidnapped because she practises Falun Gong. Zhentong Zhang is calling on all kind people in Germany to help and make great efforts so that his wife and eight year old daughter can re-unite with him. -
Iceland's Biggest Newspaper Publishes a Falun Gong Practitioner's Letter Exposing the CCP's Atrocities
2006-06-26"The special commissioner of the Parliament deemed illegal Iceland officials’ treatment of Falun Gong practitioners during Jiang Zemin’s visit to Iceland in the summer of 2002. Four years have gone by. Yet it is still critical for the Iceland authorities to correct the mistake made, for example, by adopting a clear stance on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) recent atrocities of human rights persecution. The CCP regime, which has claimed sixty or eighty million lives during peacetime, is allegedly profiting from organs harvested from living people". -
Danish Newspaper Politiken Reported on the CCP's Trade on Organs Harvested from Living Falun Gong Practitioners
2006-06-25"... a high-ranking official in China officially admitted that most of the organs were harvested from the executed prisoners. The current law in China regulated that organ donation must be proved by the agreement of the prisoner himself. But it has been little known whether the regulation was enforced". -
Danish Newspaper Berlingske Tidende Publishes Article Detailing European Parliament VP's Strong Condemnation of the CCP's Organ Trade
2006-06-23Denmark's Berlingske Tidende published an article on June 17th 2006 entitled "Strongly Condemning CCP's Organ Trade". The article stated that the vice president of the European Parliament, Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott, met two Falun Gong practitioners during his trip to China and learned about the CCP's crime of live organ removal. He strongly condemns the CCP's systemic crimes. Mr. McMillan-Scott pointed out that the CCP regime is tyrannical and very brutal. It is important for Europe to recognize the true nature of the regime.