Killed for Organs

[8 min]

Short Document | Allegations of forced organ harvesting in China started to surface in 2006. Since then, mounting evidence suggests these allegations are true—and even worse than originally suspected. Prisoners of conscience—especially Falun Gong—are being killed for their organs…

Han Yu Story

[2 min]

The last time she saw her father, Han Yu was only 19 years old. The Chinese police had detained her father for his faith multiple times following the 1999 CCP directive to eradicate Falun Gong, but this would be the last. He died within a few months in detention, but […]

The CCP Business in Body Parts

[10 min]

For more than a decade, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been systematically killing innocent people on a large scale, and extracting their vital organs to fuel a multi-billion dollar organ transplant industry. A vast majority of the victims are Falun Gong practitioners.

The Coalition Roundtable

[67 min]

The issue of China’s transplant practices first came to light through a whistleblower in March 2006. In response, David Kilgour and David Matas launched an independent investigation. Investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann later spent seven years doing his own research. He reached similar conclusions.

Has China really stopped obtaining organs from executed prisoners? | PBS

[11 min]

For decades, China obtained human organs such as kidneys and livers from executed prisoners, a practice condemned by human rights activists and medical ethicists. China says they no longer do this and have built a new system for organ transplants that now relies on volunteers, not prisoners. Hari Sreenivasan reports.

China’s Questionable Organ Transplant Trade – Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong? | BBC

[13 min]

The BBC’s Matthew Hill investigates claims that China is using detained Falun Gong practitioners as an illicit source of vital organs for its booming transplant industry. What happens to hundreds of thousands of ‘disappeared’ Chinese citizens each year? How is it possible for thousands of heart and liver transplants to take place astonishingly quickly when China has only a meager number of registered organ donors?

Ethan Gutmann: New Report on China’s Secret Organ Transplant Industry

[8 min]

A growing body of evidence indicates that Chinese hospitals have been colluding with the country’s police in a nefarious scheme known as “organ harvesting.” Ethan Gutmann is a US investigative writer, human rights defender, China watcher, author, and a former adjunct fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.