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Australia: More than 100,000 Signatures on Petition Calling for End to Organ Harvesting (Photos)

On May 9, at a council debate, David Shoebridge, John Kay, and Jan Barham, three Greens members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, submitted a petition with more than 100,000 signatures to the council. The petition calls for action to be taken to stop the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners, to make laws to forbid Australian citizens to have illegal organ transplants in other countries, and to stop training surgeons from other countries for illegal organ harvesting.

Australian Senate Unanimously Passes Motion on Organ Harvesting

The Australian Senate unanimously passed a motion on March 21 urging the government to oppose the practice of organ harvesting in China. The motion was introduced before the 76-member Upper House of the Australian Parliament by Senator John Madigan from the Democratic Labor Party.

Organ Harvesting – An inhuman crime and tragedy

The dawn of the 21st century has brought with it a new kind of evil – the mass harvesting of organs from prisoners of conscience. We are confronted with not only a few acts of murder, but murders that are systematic and committed on a large scale, sanctioned by the world’s largest remaining communist regime. This is the tragedy of organ harvesting in China, where victims’ organs are forcibly harvested and sold for profit.

Organ Harvesting Atrocities Against Falun Gong – Investigation Leads from China’s Guangzhou City – A Comprehensive Report

Guangzhou City in Guangdong Province is one of the most economically developed mega-cities in China. It is also the centre of China’s organ transplant industry. Guangzhou is one of the cities in which the persecution of Falun Gong is the most severe. Various government organizations are suspected of implementing the organ harvesting of live Falun Gong practitioners on a massive industrial scale. This report provides leads to be pursued in uncovering hard evidence of these crimes, to help judicial bodies around the world bring the guilty parties to justice.

Organ Transplants in China:Developments and Controversies

In the past year, allegations of organ harvesting from nonconsenting Falun Gong prisoners have emerged again, further raising concerns about possible abuses in China’s organ transplant industry. In December 2008, the UN Committee against Torture (UNCAT) indicated in its report on China that the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak, had noted ‘‘an increase in
organ transplant operations coincides with the ‘beginning of the persecution of [Falun Gong practitioners],’ ’’ and had urged the Chinese government to provide ‘‘a full explanation of the source of organ transplants.’’

China’s gruesome organ harvest. The whole world isn’t watching. Why not?

Practitioners of Falun Gong were forbidden to communicate openly. Yet as the guards motioned for them to begin walking, Wang felt the group fall into step like a gentle migrating herd. He looked down at the red earth, streaked with straw and human waste, to the barren mountains on the horizon. Whatever lay ahead, Wang knew they were not afraid.