Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed legislation into law aiming to ensure that residents are not unknowingly complicit in China’s state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience. As of July 1, it will be illegal in Idaho for health insurers to cover an organ transplant or post-transplant care performed in China or any country […]
The Chinese Communist Party and its sinister crime of murdering innocent people to sell their organs took center stage yesterday at a documentary screening and panel discussion. Panelists explained that most of the victims of this crime are practitioners of the Falun Gong cultivation practice. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual […]
NEW YORK—Han Guangzi pried open her eyes when her phone lit up unusually early with a beep. The next moment, she was wide awake, trying to take in the news she most dreaded. On her phone was one line from her mother: “Your dad was arrested again.” “It’s the nightmare all over again,” she told […]
State legislatures in Arizona and Idaho have passed legislation that aims to combat the horrific practice of forced organ harvesting in communist China, where many prisoners of conscience have been killed for their organs to serve a lucrative transplant trade. The Idaho bill (HO670) and the Arizona bill (HB2504) are now waiting to be signed […]
On Jan. 18, Liu Yuying witnessed her adult son being dragged away by the police, along with two other Chinese citizens targeted by the Communist regime in its unprecedented repression of faith. Twenty-six days later, she lost her daughter-in-law, Xie Shuhua, who had been paralyzed for years when over a dozen police raided their home […]
The New York Times has ignored, downplayed, or misrepresented large swaths of human rights abuses in China, a new report says, arguing the paper’s sins against journalistic integrity have likely cost lives by skewing policy debate and propping up the regime’s dehumanizing propaganda. “Not only are the victims’ plights typically treated with silence and indifference, […]
WASHINGTON—Lawmakers leading a congressional panel on China are calling for the State Department to set up rewards seeking first-hand evidence to help hold accountable perpetrators of Beijing’s forced organ harvesting. Chairs of the bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), will write to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, […]
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China heard testimony Wednesday on the “systematic, widespread, and nonconsensual removal of human organs for transplantation, or ‘organ harvesting,’” in China. Titled “Stopping the Crime of Organ Harvesting—What More Must Be Done?,” the hearing examined the evidence on China’s organ harvesting industry provided by previously detained Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, and […]
Utah has signed into law a bill to combat the Chinese regime’s horrific practice of forced organ harvesting, making it the second U.S. state to take legislative action against the abuse. As of May 1, it will be illegal in the state for health insurance providers to cover organ transplant or post-transplant care from China […]
Utah’s state legislature has unanimously passed legislation aimed at tackling the bloody practice of forced organ harvesting in communist China, the second U.S. state to do so as the horrors of the abuse gain growing recognition. S.B. 262, a bill that prohibits health insurers from covering a human organ transplant from or post-transplant care performed […]
Lawmakers in Utah are advancing a bill aimed at keeping Americans from unwittingly becoming involved in a heinous crime taking place overseas. The bill bars insurance companies from paying for organ transplants performed in China, where the ruling Chinese Communist Party kills prisoners of conscience before stealing their organs to support its organ transplant industry. […]
A Utah Senate committee has advanced a bill aimed at combating one of the Chinese regime’s most horrific crimes: forced organ harvesting. The Utah Senate Health and Human Services Committee passed the Organ Transplant Amendments, SB 262, on Feb. 21, bringing it one step closer to becoming a law. The new legislation, introduced by state […]
PHOENIX, Ariz.—A Republican-sponsored bill in Arizona seeks to combat forced organ harvesting in communist China, where prisoners of conscience have been killed for their organs on a large scale for more than two decades. At a press conference in Phoenix on Feb. 5, House Majority Leader Leo Biasiucci (R), the bill’s sponsor, said HB2504 would […]
A British lawmaker has nominated Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting for the Nobel Peace Prize, citing the medical ethics group’s role in spotlighting the “horrors of forced organ harvesting” in communist China. The D.C.-based nonprofit, known as DAFOH for short, comprises medical doctors worldwide and has spent around 17 years raising awareness over the industrial-scale […]
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China on Thursday zoomed in on the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights violations following a review session by the United Nations Human Rights Council. “I think it was encouraging that some of the countries really did raise issues seriously. But China gamed the system as they always do. They are duplicitous […]
The U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) holds a hearing on “The PRC’s Universal Periodic Review and the Real State of Human Rights in China” at 10:00 a.m. ET on Feb. 1. Witnesses: Rana Siu Inboden: senior fellow with the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas-Austin Benedict Rogers: […]
WASHINGTON—House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Jan. 31 highlighted concerns about the Chinese Communist Party’s forced organ harvesting of faith adherents, identifying the regime as among “some of the most repressive in the world” for its human rights abuses. “Tibetan Buddhists and Falun Gong practitioners are placed in forced labor camps, and they have their […]
A coalition of 110 lawmakers, doctors, academics, and civil groups are calling on the United Nations to establish an international criminal tribunal to investigate crimes of forced organ harvesting in China. Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) issued the call this January ahead of the U.N.’s upcoming review of China’s human rights record on Jan. […]
A conference addressing pressing human rights issues in China was held at the United Nations in Geneva on Jan. 22. The focus of this event revolved around the impending Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of China, with particular attention to the ongoing persecution and forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners. The past five years have […]
