On January 31, 2007, two Canadian investigators released the revised version of their investigation report in which more direct evidence was added, showing that victims of live organ harvesting are Falun Gong practitioners. Such operations involving harvesting organs from living individuals have been undertaken in hospitals across China.
HUMAN rights lawyers want Western nations to discourage or prevent their citizens from going to China for human organs whose “donors” may have been killed and the organs harvested.
Canada and other countries should discourage or prevent their citizens from going to China to get human organs whose “donors” may have been killed so that the organs could be harvested, a team of human rights lawyers said on Wednesday.
Mayor CR Joe Natoli of Maroochy Shire Council, Australia, wrote a statement in support of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG) and its investigative teams formed around the world to go to China.
During recent days, Mr. David Kilgour said in an interview that he had obtained new evidence supporting the allegation of live organ removal in his trip to thirty capitals across the world. Mr. Kilgour indicated he would add the new evidence to his report and release a revised version.
Belgian Senator Patrik Vankrunkelsven from the Flemish Liberal Party announced this week that he recently conducted his own investigation of organ harvesting in China and was urged by hospital staff to come for an operation before February when supplies would decrease.
QUEENSLAND’S two major organ transplant hospitals have banned training Chinese surgeons because of concerns raised by the Falun Gong group.
International reports have suggested that of the 60,000 organ transplants the China Medical Organ Transplant Association recorded between 2000 and 2005, only 18,500 came from identifiable sources.
The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG) announced the founding of an investigation team in Victoria, Australia. The team plans to go to China’s Hebei, Jilin and Hubei Provinces for their investigations.
Reports that Falun Gong practitioners in China are being killed to extract their kidneys, livers, hearts, corneas and other organs have prompted the establishment of a delegation which will travel to China to investigate the allegations by interviewing both government officials and Falun Gong practitioners.
