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Falun Gong Prisoners Used for Organ Harvesting? 4/13/2006 U.S. and U.N. officials investigate.
A Chinese journalist working under the pseudonym Jin Zhong claims to have found a secret detention center in the Sujiatun district of the northern city of Shenyang, China. The center is used by a hospital, claims Zhong in The Washington Times, to harvest the organs of Falun Gong prisoners and sell them on the national and international market.
He thinks about 6,000 such prisoners are being held there now.
The Falun Gong religious group has been subject to abuse by the Chinese government since 1999 when its practice was called a threat to Communist authority and was subsequently outlawed.
Zhong, who has been arrested twice for reporting on this matter in China and is now seeking asylum in the United States, has called upon the U.S. government to act. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-California) is gathering signatures of U.S. representatives on a letter to President Bush, urging him to investigate the charge that Chinese authorities may be harvesting organs, without consent, from living human beings.
“This would seem too horrific to believe if our world didn’t already have a long, and even current, history of medical and scientific atrocities against human beings,” said Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America. “The perpetrators would argue that taking organs from nonconsenting living human beings is justified by the ‘good’ of saving other humans’ lives. While we work to end this in China, we must also keep America from going down this same path of treating any human as material to be carved up to obtain parts.”
The United Nations is sorting out the evidence as well. According to Reuters, Manfred Nowak, U.N. special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, is investigating the matter. While visiting China last year after years of negotiations, Nowak discovered the widespread use of torture. Chinese authorities have denied his allegations.
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