The CCP Still Harvests Organs From Living Falun Gong Practitioners

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http://www.ntd.tv/en/programs/news-politics/china-forbidden-news/20141121/248954-report-the-ccp-still-harvests-organs-from-living-falun-gong-practitioners.html

After the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) reported on Oct. 21 and 28 that Chinese army hospitals and the armed police are suspected of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners as well as furnishing investigation recordings of multiple senior officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), WOIPFG released an investigation report on Nov. 18. The latest WOIPFG report points out that the CCP's organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners is ongoing.

In order to understand the status of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners in China, from March to September of this year WOIPFG conducted a series of telephone sample surveys. More than 1,000 doctors in the organ transplant field in 30 provinces and municipalities of China participated. The results showed that almost all hospitals with the capability of organ transplanting are still plotting to solicit business, and generally indicate that they have sufficient donors with young, healthy and high-quality body organs, as well as a short waiting period. Many doctors promised to provide available organs within one to four weeks.

In addition, the hospitals said they still had organ donors from a pool of Falun Gong practitioners, but just using more obscure words than previous years’. For example, as a heart surgery doctor as well as deputy director of the Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Dr Zeng Wen replied when an investigator asked him about the source of donors.

Zeng Wen: “I think you also know where the majority of donors come from. I think you know this very well, so we don’t need to talk about this very clearly. So it is impossible to have these things (medical checking indicators).”
Investigator: “I know, I have probably asked, because my family has a member working in the courts, many of donors are from them.”
Zeng Wen: “Ah, ah, ah”
Investigator: “Prisoners, huh?”
Investigator: “Falun Gong donors are the best, and those people are very healthy, you see. Can you guarantee me to have this one?”
Zeng Wen: “Ah, i don’t want to say anything, bye.”

The survey report pointed out that since the shady dealings of the CCP’s organ harvesting from living Falun Gong were exposed in 2006, under the highlighted concern of the international community, the CCP has repudiated the facts by telling lies while continuing to slaughter Falun Gong practitioners. Until now a few million Falun Gong practitioners have been detained as part of the CCP’s state organ donor resource library, their organs have been harvested according to the actual needs. Falun Gong practitioners in Mainland China may still be murdered via live organ harvesting by Chinese Communists.

WOIPFG spokesman Wang Zhiyuan: "Such a massacre has been executed by the police, prosecutors, courts, judiciaries and all levels of government agencies led by 610 offices under the Politics and Law Committee. The key persons involved in the organ harvesting are all from organ transplant related medical agencies in the army, armed police and civil medical institutions. In a recent report, we discovered that Jiang Zemin personally issued the command to do so. The former Defense Minister Liang Guanglie also revealed that the organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners has been discussed in the meeting of the CCP’s Central Military Committee. This shows that such a matter is an act of state and once nationwide movement from top to bottom. The CCP has not yet announced this stop of this movement, so this thing is still going forward."

Falun Gong human rights organization spokesman Chen Shizhong: "Organ harvesting has brought huge economic interests. Even if they wanted to stop, it cannot be stopped. They are making money by killing people, a business without costs. Under the rule of the CCP, there are no morals. Now they cannot stop, as they have just absorbed the poison."

According to the report released by WOIPFG on Oct. 28, since the persecution on Falun Gong was launched in 1999, the General Hospitals of all categories of troops, General Hospital of the Armed Police, Affiliated Hospitals of each Military Medical University, 12 General Hospitals of seven Military Regions, and many hospitals with serial numbers have begun or expanded the scale of organ transplants. The transplant industry has brought great profits to the military hospitals. For instance, the gross medical income of Organ Transplant Center of No. 309 Army Hospital, as a key hospital department earning major profits, has increased from 30 million RMB in 2006 to 230 million yuan in 2010, an increase of almost seven times within five years.

In addition to the CCP's own evil, WOIPFG spokesman Wang Zhiyuan believes that the lack of pressure by the international community on the CCP is also one of the reasons of the ongoing organ harvesting.

Wang Zhiyuan: "The pressure from the international community is still not enough, because the CCP uses lies to deceive people and many other diplomatic, economic and political means to control the international community. This forced many countries to remain voiceless on this matter. So this is due to insufficient efforts of the international community, and the factual truth and the seriousness of this matter have not been realized and aware, so this thing (live organ harvesting) is still ongoing."

According to the news report, on Nov. 16, the second day of the G20 summit, when Chinese leader Xi Jinping's motorcade left the main venue, he met with the long waiting Falun Gong practitioners. They highly held the banners, "Bring the Culprits of persecuting Falun Gong to Justice" and shouted "Falun Dafa is good," "Stop the persecution of Falun Gong" when Xi Jinping’s convoy passed.

Wang Zhiyuan pointed out that Xi Jinping should face the crime of organ harvesting, and realize its seriousness.

Wang Zhiyuan: "We have collected more than 10,000 relevant suspect doctors. If each of them carried out a dozen of operation cases or a few hundreds of cases, some people ] finished several thousands of cases, then 10,000 doctors should have used organs from more than one million Falun Gong practitioners. This is genocide, crimes against humanity equal to Nazi’s war criminals of World War II. No matter who he is, he should be unwilling to take the crime allegation. Because the nature of this crime is very serious."
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/12/04/368449449/china-to-end-organ-harvesting-from-executed-inmates

China To End Organ Harvesting From Executed Inmates
SCOTT NEUMAN

China says it will halt the controversial practice of harvesting human organs for transplant from executed prisoners beginning on Jan. 1 in what The New York Times describes as "the firmest deadline given to date for ending" the practice.

Human Rights activists have long charged that taking organs from condemned prisoners could have the effect of hastening the pace of such executions — especially since China's supply falls far short of the need for transplant surgeries.

China already puts to death more prisoners than any other country, a figure that Amnesty International guessed at last year as in the "thousands."

In 2012, Beijing announced that it would phase-out the practice as part of a larger move to overhaul its organ transplant system, with the aim of abolishing it within five years.

The Wall Street Journal reports that "[while] China already forbids organ donations without the consent of the donor or the family, critics have said inmates can feel pressured to sign away their organs and that the source of organs isn't well supervised.

"Officials have previously said that China depended for years on executed prisoners as its main source of organ supply for ailing citizens. About 65% of transplants in China use organs from deceased donors, over 90% of whom were executed prisoners, according to a 2011 paper co-written by Mr. Huang [Jiefu, the director of China's Human Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee,] in the medical journal Lancet. The paper said China is the only country that systematically uses organs from executed prisoners."
So far this year, organs have been collected from 1,500 people in China who consented to be donors on their deaths, according to WSJ.

"That exceeds a total of 1,448 voluntary donors for the previous three years.
"By comparison, last year in the United States, with a smaller population, 14,256 people donated organs, including 8,268 deceased donors and 5,988 living donors, according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services."