Organ Harvest Documentary Wins Prestigious Peabody Prize

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Organ Harvest Documentary Wins Prestigious Peabody Prize
Recognition comes as international medical stance toward China reaches fork in the road
By Matthew Robertson

An unflinching documentary about mass murder for profit in modern China has been granted one of the most prestigious awards in television and broadcast, the Peabody Award.

“Human Harvest,” directed by Leon Lee, was produced in 2014 and has been broadcast around the world and during film festivals since then. It was previously awarded the 2015 Michael Sullivan Frontline Award for Journalism in a Documentary.

The film focuses on the harvesting of organs of practitioners of Falun Gong, a Chinese spiritual discipline, by Chinese military and civilian hospitals. Falun Gong, which consists of meditative exercises and moral teachings, has been persecuted in its homeland of China since 1999.

The anti-Falun Gong campaign has featured arbitrary detention, forced ideological re-education, widespread torture in custody, and thousands of deaths due to that torture.

The campaign was augmented by a media offensive that slandered adherents as deranged and unworthy of sympathy. Soon after the campaign against it began, researchers said that the Falun Gong population became a prime target for the lucrative organ trade.

“With powerful testimonials about the intricacies of the trade and the human cost, including interviews with Chinese doctors who confide they’ve been coerced into removing organs from live political prisoners, this is a harrowing exposé of a fiendish system of forced organ donor transplants,” wrote the Peabody Award judges, all of whom must endorse award winners.
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