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China is Harvesting Organs from Detainees, UK Tribunal Concludes

posted by martyb on Monday June 24 2019, @02:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-seedy-side-of-organ-harvesting dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/17/china-is-harvesting-organs-from-detainees-uk-tribunal-concludes:

An independent tribunal sitting in London has concluded that the killing of detainees in China for organ transplants is continuing, and victims include imprisoned followers of the Falun Gong movement.

The China Tribunal, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, who was a prosecutor at the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, said in a unanimous determination at the end of its hearings it was “certain that Falun Gong as a source - probably the principal source - of organs for forced organ harvesting”.

“The conclusion shows that very many people have died indescribably hideous deaths for no reason, that more may suffer in similar ways and that all of us live on a planet where extreme wickedness may be found in the power of those, for the time being, running a country with one of the oldest civilisations known to modern man.”

He added: “There is no evidence of the practice having been stopped and the tribunal is satisfied that it is continuing.”

[...] China announced in 2014 that it would stop removing organs for transplantation from executed prisoners and has dismissed the claims as politically-motivated and untrue.

[...] There have been calls for the UK parliament to ban patients from travelling to China for transplant surgery. More than 40 MPs from all parties have backed the motion. Israel, Italy, Spain and Taiwan already enforce such restrictions.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 24 2019, @06:52PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 24 2019, @06:52PM (#859460)

    Who the fuck are they? A bunch of private individuals? Do they have any government backing? Are they a Falun Gong front?

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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday June 24 2019, @10:17PM (1 child)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday June 24 2019, @10:17PM (#859521)

    Who are We? [chinatribunal.com]
    Looks like a front for something else, this guy makes me wonder who:

    Nicholas Vetch

    Nicholas Vetch is a businessman, and co-founder of two public companies and a number of private entities. He is engaged in a range of NGOs in the fields of human rights and education.

    This might be him. [bloomberg.com]

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 25 2019, @01:26AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 25 2019, @01:26AM (#859569)

    Looking through the reading materials, a lot have the participation of Matthew Robertson, former China editor for the Epoch Times, a Falun Gong publication.

    My money is on "chinatribunal.com" being a Falun Gong front. Doesn't mean they are wrong.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 25 2019, @06:30AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 25 2019, @06:30AM (#859629)

      It means precisely they are wrong, even if they are right on the facts.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday June 30 2019, @12:48PM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 30 2019, @12:48PM (#861597) Journal
        Rightness on relevant facts is a perfect defense against accusations that they are wrong.