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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 24 2019, @08:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 24 2019, @08:05PM (#859487)

    to be honest, going to prison and scared with 'murikan soap-pick-up-rape is a tiny bit less scary then having your organs forfeited.
    leave it to them chinese to make detention really scary.
    on a side note: having to handle this many chinese with the same thin play-book on how to run a country everybody else is consulting too, might not cut it.
    so here the chinese are definitely on the forefront and i would not be surprised if other countries will follow suit, even if they're not burdened with the same
    situation of being the number one populous country on the planet.
    human-right are going to get a "upgrade" really soon ... on paper ... again.