Forced organ harvesting by the Chinese communist regime is a horrific practice that has many innocent victims. The focus is usually on the Chinese who are killed, and with good reason. However, the organ recipients who are getting organs from China are also at risk of becoming victims. The panel of doctors, lawyers, activists, and politicians covered this issue and other human rights abuses on December 10th, which was the 75th anniversary of International Human Rights Day. These events included testimonies from medical healthcare professionals, who revealed how organs were forced upon patients who could have been potential victims to the forced organ trade. Americans are particularly at risk of becoming inadvertent victims when they buy organs in China.
Evidence has shown that over the past few decades, the Chinese communist regime has secretly been killing mass amounts of prisoners of conscience in order to support their transplant industry. The primary victims of forced organ harvesting are imprisoned Falun Gong adherents, as the regime has been increasingly persecuting them since the group was banned in 1999.
One doctor, Howard Monsour, explained how a patient of his flew to China and received a new liver almost immediately upon arrival. This was very unexpected, as the patient was rejected by several U.S. hospitals for a transplant before going to China. During the virtual event, Dr. Monsour went on to testify before the Texas Senate regarding CCP’s practice of forced organ harvesting, which the state officially condemned in 2021.
Dr. Torsten Trey, the executive director of DAFOH, shared a story of a patient who had received a heart transplant in China with only two weeks notice. Dr. Trey’s account was corroborated by a South Korean broadcast journalist who discovered that patients could get a kidney transplant in China within 2 days if they paid an extra $10,000.
Winston Liu, who became a victim of forced organ harvesting, gave an account of being tortured during his time in China. This account was corroborated by the documentation from international human rights lawyer David Matas, who discovered that China’s prison system was testing organs on Falun Gong prisoners. The evidence revealed that these are forced and not voluntary donations of organs. China’s official stance on organ donation reveals that prisoners were the main source of the organs, however, it could not account for the high volume of transplants in the country. All evidence definitively points to a dangerous practice of forced organ harvesting in China.