Media Release
A former Canadian cabinet member and a human rights lawyer issued a report overnight alleging China harvests organs from unwilling live prison inmates, mostly Falun Gong practitioners, for transplants on a large scale.
The Government of China released a statement in response to our report titled Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China dated July 6, 2006.
We have these reactions to this statement:
In order to raise awareness of the persecution of Falun Gong and the Chinese Communist Party’s crime of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit, practitioners from Queensland organized activities in front of the Supreme Court to expose the CCP’s atrocities.
A 45-page investigative report was released today in North America that addresses allegations of organ harvesting from Falun Gong detainees. Coauthored by former Canadian Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific) David Kilgour and human rights attorney David Matas, the report draws “the regrettable conclusion that the allegations are true.”
“The very horror makes us reel back in disbelief,” the report says. “But that disbelief does not mean that the allegations are untrue.”
A respected Canadian human rights lawyer and a former Canadian cabinet member lent their weight on Thursday to charges that China has been killing Falun Gong dissidents so it can use their organs.
Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group recently uploaded several UN reports on human rights violation against the practice in China. The persecution of Falun Gong in China is still widespread and brutal.
At a directions hearing for the case yesterday (3/07/06), a representative of the law office representing the plaintiffs advised the court that the case would not be discontinued and sought leave from the court for a three-week extension which was granted.
Monday 3rd July 2006, ten school students from Sydney will spend their school holidays on a car tour from Sydney to Melbourne to raise awareness of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.
I am Father Peter Caruana and I am the Parish Priest of the Catholic Church in Ingleburn, NSW. I am not a Falun Gong practitioner but I became a member of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG).
