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China Touts ‘Fair’ Organ Transplant System Condemned for Harvesting from
Political Prisoners
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The Chinese state newspaper Global Times is applauding the communist
government in a column published Monday for its “fair” organ transplant
system, in an article titled “Sound Legal System and Fair Distribution in
China’s Organ Transplant Hailed by International Community.”
While the title promises hailing from the international community, the
extensive article only includes one sentence about the acclaim China has
allegedly received: “The system is also hailed by international experts,
including Francis Delmonico, former president of The Transplantation Society
and a Harvard Medical School professor.”
This is likely because, in reality, the international community has condemned
China for decades as evidence has mounted that its “fair distribution” of
organs has largely distributed organs from unwilling political prisoners to
generously paying patients. While the article claims “China has made every
effort to establish a sound legal system to eradicate organ trafficking and
to guarantee that the organs are distributed in a fair and transparent manner,
” reports published as recently as this year suggest that prisoners of
conscience continue to experience medical testing consistent with organ
donation searches and China continues to profit from the practice.
A study published in June 2016 found evidence that China did not document
tens of thousands of organ transplants on a regional level, which means there
is no record of where the organs in question came from. The study also found
hundreds of Chinese hospitals that conducted organ transplants but were not
certified by the government to do so. While China has insisted that organ
farming from political prisoners is a thing of the past, surviving prisoners
of conscience have testified to seeing organ harvesting in prisons in recent
times.
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Taipei, TAIWAN: During a rally joined by thousands of Falun Gong
practitioners at Taipei 23 April 2006, four demonstrators play in an action
drama against what they said was the Chinese communists’ killing of Falun
Gong followers and harvesting of their organs in concentration camps. China
outlawed the Falun Gong, which combines meditation with Buddhist-inspired
teachings, as an “evil cult” in mid-1999 and practitioners have
subsequently faced often brutal repression. AFP PHOTO/PATRICK LIN
In May, PBS Newshour released a report in which human rights advocates
asserted that they had interviews political prisoners who had been tested as
potential organ donors regularly during their arrest. “They have obviously
got a lot of people sitting around waiting to be killed for a transplant. And
they are just picking the right person to be killed depending on who the
patient is,” human rights attorney Matas asserted.
China officially admitted to harvesting organs but claimed the practice ended
2015, PBS noted.
China has received widespread international condemnation for its practices,
most recently at a Vatican conference on organ trafficking in February.