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

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) by khallow on Monday June 24 2019, @09:16PM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 24 2019, @09:16PM (#859505) Journal

    Wasting the organs

    "Wasting the organs" means the people who currently have those organs live. It also means that there isn't an additional incentive from those valuable organs to kill people.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 25 2019, @01:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 25 2019, @01:35PM (#859700)

    Also, a large portion of the "scumbag" social class have a high frequency of additional medical issues -- things like IV drug use and viral hepatitis, smoking, heavy alcohol use. There's a motivation for extended the pool of involuntary donors to the class of political prisoners, as they have relatively good diets and clean living habits (like Falun Gong practitioners).