Forced Organ Harvesting Continues

For more than 25 years, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda, as well as political and financial incentives, has deceived the public, forcing many in the international community, NGOs, and media into self-censorship on the Chinese regime’s crimes against humanity. The CCP is attempting to silence the hearts and minds of more than 8 billion people, but this tyranny cannot succeed if we refuse to be silenced.

China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Continues

 The Hudson Institute  | June 30, 2022

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has acknowledged using executed prisoners as a source of organs to supply China’s medical transplant centers until 2015. But mounting evidence indicates that China continues to use prisoners—specifically prisoners of conscience—for forced organ harvesting. Moreover, the U.S. government takes Beijing’s denials of such reports at face value, while the American transplant sector collaborates freely with China in trainings, educational exchanges, research, publications, conferences, and other partnerships. Hudson Senior Fellow Nina Shea will discuss this issue with Hudson Senior Fellow Nury Turkel and Dr. Jessica Russo. Both Turkel and Russo are noted experts in forced organ harvesting and the CCP’s other egregious human rights abuses, including against practitioners of the spiritual meditation group Falun Gong and the Uyghur Muslim population in Xinjiang.

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Nobel Peace Prize nominees David Matas and David Kilgour investigate the organ harvesting trade in China and uncover one of the world’s worst crimes against humanity. For its exposé of highly profitable, monstrous system of forced organ donation, Human Harvest: China’s Illegal Organ Trade received a Peabody Award.