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Uyghur Genocide: China faces Human Rights investigations over forced organ harvesting
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Uyghur Genocide: China faces Human Rights investigations over forced organ harvesting

By Ali Iqbal, Transplant Nephrologist, Assistant Professor of Medicine, McMaster University; and Aliya Khan, Clinical professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University Organ transplantation is a life-saving therapy for millions of patients and one of the greatest successes of modern medicine. However, a limited supply of donor organs, paired with a massive demand for transplants,…

Why the global community must pay attention to China killing prisoners to harvest their organs
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Why the global community must pay attention to China killing prisoners to harvest their organs

Organ transplantation is a life-saving therapy for millions of patients and one of the greatest successes of modern medicine. However, a limited supply of donor organs, paired with a massive demand for transplants, has fuelled the global organ trafficking industry that exploits poor, underprivileged and persecuted members of society as a source of organs to…

China’s putting its prisoners of conscience to use — execute them, force organ transplant
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China’s putting its prisoners of conscience to use — execute them, force organ transplant

China’s using incarcerated prisoners of conscience as organ donors for transplants for patients. It’s the only country to do it on an industrial-scale level.

Killing prisoners for transplants: Forced organ harvesting in China
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Killing prisoners for transplants: Forced organ harvesting in China

Organ transplantation is a life-saving therapy for millions of patients and one of the greatest successes of modern medicine. However, a limited supply of donor organs, paired with a massive demand for transplants, has fueled the global organ trafficking industry which exploits poor, underprivileged and persecuted members of society as a source of organs to…

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

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…