Falun Gong

Falun Gong is a spiritual movement that has been persecuted by the Chinese government, with many members facing arbitrary detention and other human rights abuses. Some members of Falun Gong have also been targeted for human trafficking, particularly for forced labor and organ harvesting. The Chinese government has been accused of using Falun Gong practitioners as a source of organs for transplant surgeries, and there have been reports of Falun Gong members being forcibly detained and subjected to medical testing. Additionally, some Falun Gong members have been trafficked for forced labor in industries such as agriculture, construction, and manufacturing.

 

Forced Organ Harvesting: American Organ Transplant Collaboration with China Despite Damning Evidence
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Forced Organ Harvesting: American Organ Transplant Collaboration with China Despite Damning Evidence

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New evidence supports the determination by human rights experts and victims’ advocacy groups that China has not ended its forced organ harvesting program targeting those imprisoned, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claims. Human rights experts find that Falun Gong detainees, as well as Uyghur Muslims and other religious minorities detained in large numbers since…

Tibetans urge global community not to forget Tibet on World Refugee Day
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Tibetans urge global community not to forget Tibet on World Refugee Day

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Lhasa [Tibet], June 21 (ANI): Tibetans on the occasion of World Refugee Day urged the international community to support them and collectively stand together against China, and not to forget Tibet. Benedict Rogers a human rights activist and writer highlighted the Chinese repressions of Tibet and said that for many years Tibet was a cause…

‘Tool of genocide’: Chinese government is forcibly removing organs from prisoners’ bodies
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‘Tool of genocide’: Chinese government is forcibly removing organs from prisoners’ bodies

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Evidence suggests that execution by organ donation is part of a systematic campaign against people Beijing classifies as politically problematic. James S. RobbinsOpinion columnist  The leading medical transplant journal in the world recently made the case that Chinese prisoners are being forced to give up organs at the expense of their lives. The journal article carried this shocking…

‘I survived a labour detention camp where prisoners had their organs harvested’
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‘I survived a labour detention camp where prisoners had their organs harvested’

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A woman has recalled the harrowing psychological torture she endured at a labour camp in China where prisoners had their organs harvested.  Annie Yang, 56, was detained in three different camps between March 2005 and September 2006 in China before fleeing to the UK – she has shared her harrowing experience of psychological torture  …

U.N. urged to investigate organ harvesting in China
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U.N. urged to investigate organ harvesting in China

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  By Emma Batha LONDON, Sept 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A senior lawyer called on Tuesday for the top United Nations human rights body to investigate evidence that China is murdering members of the Falun Gong spiritual group and harvesting their organs for transplant. Hamid Sabi called for urgent action as he presented the…

Answering the Supreme Court's Call for Guidance on the Alien Tort Statute – Just Security
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Answering the Supreme Court's Call for Guidance on the Alien Tort Statute – Just Security

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by William S. Dodge and Oona Hathaway June 3, 2022 Original article here In June 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Nestlé v. Doe that the plaintiffs, who were allegedly trafficked as children from Mali to Ivory Coast to engage in slave labor on cocoa plantations, could not sue U.S. companies that supported those plantations under the Alien…

Is British science aiding and abetting the Chinese human organ trade? From the Telegraph
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Is British science aiding and abetting the Chinese human organ trade? From the Telegraph

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Between March 2005 and September 2006 Annie Yang was tortured for up to 20 hours a day in a labour camp outside Beijing for her devotion to Falun Gong spiritualism. The abuse was relentless. But every few weeks something strange would happen. She and her fellow captives would be herded onto a prison bus with…