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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 Tuesday June 25 2019, @03:51PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 25 2019, @03:51PM (#859752) Journal
    As further elaboration on my remarks on the Love Canal scandal, consider this phrase from the Wikipedia article [wikipedia.org].

    After its sale to the local school district in 1953, which occurred using the threat of eminent domain, Love Canal attracted national attention for the public health problem originating from the former massive dumping of toxic waste on the grounds.

    In other words, this mess wouldn't have happened in the first place, if the school district didn't seize the land and then allow 800 families to buy homes and directly build two schools on the property in the first place. It still may have been a huge Superfund site with all kinds of environmental problems. But government was instrumental in bringing people in contact with the harm (and with disrupting the integrity of the Love Canal dump site) not the hypothetical sociopathy of business.